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The Geographical Journal For September Contains A...

Captain L. V. S. Blacker, of the Guides, describing the adventures of a small British detachment in Chinese Turkistan in 1918, where it pursued a gang of Bolshevik Turks and......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review] Edinburgh's Place in Scientific Progress. (Chambers. 6s. not.) t For the benefit of the members of the......

Italy The Pioneer Of Peace. By Lucy Re-bartlett. (british...

League, 74 Grosvenor Street. 4d.)—Mrs. Re-Bartlett's address on the Treaty of Rapallo was well worth printing and deserves to be read, especially by those who wrongly suppose......

The Wherefore And The Why : Some New Rhymes For

Old Children. By A. P. Herbert. Illustrated by George Morrow. (Methuen. 3s. 6d. net.)—Many of Mr. Herbert's rhymes are most amusing, though, like many writers of verse......

Poets And Poetry.

SOMP, OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.—V.—A POSTSCRIPT. A CORRESPONDENT has favoured us with some comments on the attempt that has been made in this column......

Court Rolls Of The Borough Of Colchester. Vol. I....

Translated by L H. Jeayes. With introduction by W. Gurney Benham. (Colchester Town Council. £2 2s. net.)—The Colchester Corporation, which has already printed its charters and......

The Book Of Duarte Barbosa. Edited By Manse' Longworth...

Vol. IL (Hakluyt Society : issued to members.)— Barbosa was a Portuguese traveller who visited India in the early years of the sixteenth century, probably before 1518, and also......

The Story Of Stafford House, Now The London Museum. By

Arthur Irwin Dasent. (Murray. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Dasent, in this instructive little essay, traces the history of the site of the London Museum from the days when the Abbot of......