10 MAY 1930, page 19

Some Books Of The Week

MA4011-GENEAAL SIR WYNDIIAM Camps has had a remarkable career, for he was a Staff_Captain at the War Office in 1910 and the Deputy Adjutant-General to the British Expeditionary......

A New Competition

Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the competitor whose selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict. The......

The Title, Service Trials And Tragedies, By Lieutenant-...

E. Whitton (Hutchinson, 18s.) might give the impression that here was another volume of war reminiscences, but Colonel Whitton is already known as the author of several serious......

(" General Knowledge Competition" And " More Books Of The

Week" will be found on pages 798 and 792.)......

My Life Story From. Archduke To Grocer, By Herr Leopold

Wolffing (ex-Archduke Leopold of Tuscany) is one of those exceptional books of autobiography which are really worth the guinea charged by the publishers. Indeed, Messrs.......

When The Economics Of Safeguarding, By Alexander Ramsay...

6d.), was written it was probably intended to support the Conservative Party policy on that question. Since then, however, this policy has changed. Mr. Baldwin has removed from......

In Demurely Humorous Imitation Of The Old Eighteenth...

Mr. Walter de in Mare describes his - book, Desert Islands (Faber and Faber, 21s.) as being" The Voyage of a Hulk, called by courtesy a Lecture, that was launched under the......