11 APRIL 1931, page 30

The Magazines

In the Nineteenth Century for April the article most deser% of notice is that by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, a ve outspoken and an overdue examination of the plight o......

We Should Be Willing To Believe Almost Anything Mr. Hube

Griffith orders us to believe, if only he did not order. Th war is always an evil, and in Eastern and Central Europe menacing evil, that international tariff-walls and passpo......

Few Members Of The Indian Political Service Have Had Varied

and unusual an experience as Sir Frederick O'Conno who records it very ably and modestly in On the Fron and Beyond (Murray, 15s.). He - made his reputation as Tibetan expert......

Some Books Of The Week It Is A Hundred Years

since Michael- Faraday succeeded i obtaining electricity from ordinary magnetism, thus open . the • way for developments whereby electricity for lightin g , heating, mechanical......

The Second Volume Of Lady Tyrrell's The World's Histo A

Summary (Nash and Grayson, 6s.) covers the period fro the death of Alexander the Great to that of Constantine, deals, therefore, chiefly with Roman history and the devel , ment......