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Mr. Young's Compact Memoir Of Carlyle (duckworth, 12s....

the main facts of his career. It is marred by his too evident dislike of the great man. Hero-worship in a biographer may be deprecated ; but there should be sympathy between the......

For Herr Einstein The World Is Too Small, For Professor

Rutherford the earth is too big, yet the sciences of astronomy and the atom are closely interrelated. As the Atom is to the Earth, so the Earth to Cosmos. In The ,Romance of the......

The Distinguished Editor Of The Corriere Della Sera,...

has published his Cosa Viste in English under .the title of As They Seemed To Me (Methuen, 6s.). We, hope to review it shortly.......

The Archaeological Survey Of India Sends Us Mr. Henry...

important work on Chalukian Architecture, price £3 10s. 6d. or Rs. 46. The temples described are those in the territory _south of Bombay and Goa up to the Ghats. Some of this......

The Late Rudolf Steiner Was A Remarkable Man Who Thought

in pictures of the spiritual world. The Story of My Life (Anthroposophical Publishing Co., 10s.) is not light reading, but it will be welcomed by the not inconsiderable number......

Some Books Of The Week

Tim excellent Subjed Index to Periodicals published by the Library Association is now in our reference library. The price is £3 10s., which seems heavy, but the work is one......

Things Seen Irk The Bay Of Naples Is A Charming

little book published by Messrs. Seeley, Service & Co. at 3s. 6d. The chapter on Capri (" The Jewel of the Bay ") is excellent, although if our memory serves us, there are more......

The Christ Of The Aryan Road (c. W. Daniel, 3s.

6d.) is a volume which has had a considerable vogue. We may read therein a great deal of the Inner Government of the world, of Initiates, Sub-races and the other idioms of......

Mrs. Leicester's A Holiday In Burma (wheaton And Co.,...

5s.) is a pleasantly written and charmingly illustrated littIe book which anyone contemplating a voyage to that enchanted land May be well advised to purchase. The final chapter......

In Announcing The Winner Of The Political Competition We...

Mr. J. A. R. Pimlott's name incorrectly. It should have been as now written.......

A New Book On Tennis By Mr. Tilden—match Play And

the Spin of the Ball (Methuen, 5s.)—will be eagerly bought by his many admirers. It is full of " meat." His advice to girls, for instance, is to learn " the fore-hand drive of......

The Eleventh Volume Of The L.c.c. Survey Of London Deals

chiefly with the Royal Hospital of Chelsea. It is published by Messrs. Batsford at two guineas. Perhaps we may be permitted to again congratulate Mr. Montague Cox and Mr. Philip......

, The . Addresses Of The Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King,

Prime Minister of Canada, sound a note of citizenship and exalted patriotism which it is good to read. As long as such men govern the destinies of the great Dominion, we may......

A New Leap -year Competition

Tax Burro': offers a prize of two guineas for the best refusal, in not more than 250 words, of either of the prize-winning proposals of marriage in our last competition, the......

General Knowledge Questions

Ova weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss K. Cowden, care of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, 'and Co., 123 Pall Mall, S.W. 1,......