10 DECEMBER 1927, page 20

Mr. Hamilton Fyfe Has A Profound Belief In Democracy, Which

we share. But in Archon, or The Future of Government (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.), he displays an addiction to capitals which is rather trying ; . we read much of. People's Rule, the......

The Carnegie United -kingdom Trust : Has Issued A Most...

report on the growth of County Libraries, which it began to finance in 1915 and to which it has contributed in all over £400,000, apart from its grants to the Central Library.......

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Anyone who reads Mr. Ellis Barker's large book on Chronic' Constipation (Murray, 7s. 6d.) cannot fail to' be impressed' by the importance of the subject and the general......

Some Books

of the Week MISS DOROTHY UNA. RADCLIFFE -presents the strong poetie prose-sketches -and the wistful—rather sombre—verse con- tained in Dale Folk (John Lane, illustrated, 10s.......

The Price Of The Scout Annual; Published By C. Arthur

Pearson, was given in last week's Spectator as 5s. It should be-10s. 6d.......

If We Would Seek A Cultured, Deeply Informed And Therefore

lovingly enthusiastic guide to what is best in book-printing. and book-binding, we have it in Mr. William Dana Orcutt's superb Kingdom of Books (Murray, illustrated, 21s.). The......

The Passion Of The Duchesse D'abranks For That Great...

and namantic hero, Maurice de Balincourt, is now revealed in her .copious Memoirs edited . . by Robert Chant- 'nesse (Jonathan Cape. Price 16s.). Her love letters are now_......

Forty Years Of Cattle-ranching In New Mexico Beginning In...

when cattle-rustlers were busy, when Geronimo and his Apaches were on the war trail, and when most men went " heeled" with the rexultant crop of homicides, ought to furnish an......

A New Competition

WE have pleasure in announcing a new and somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers wherhave_a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a prize of twenty guineas......

Messrs. Benn Have Added Two New Volumes To Their Series

of Contemporary British Dramatists (3s. 6d. in paper or 5s. in cloth). In Boadicea, Mr. Laurence Binyon gives us a fine historical play in the old tradition. Written partly in......

Mr. Cummings Hunting Tours Of Surtees (blackwoods, 20s.)...

papers which Surtee& wrote for the Sporting Magazine, and later his own publication, the New Sporting Magazine. The book is illustrated in 'colourby Mr. Armour (the wise will......