11 FEBRUARY 1922, page 24

Poets And Poetry.

MUSIC.* THE quality of Mr. Freeman's verse is very uneven. Perhaps it is the fact that he generally sticks to one mood and one method that brings this home to the reader. When......

Plays For Guides And Brownies. By C. M. Edmondston. (wells

Gardner, Darton and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) The four plays in this little book can be recommended to Guiders who have to organize entertainments. They require little scenery and no......

Diet And Race. By F. P. Armitage. (longmans. 7s. 6d.

net.) —In spite of the widely varying and very definite views on the dieting of school boys which have found expression in the correspondence* columns of the Times, the truth is......

. A Selection Of Cases Illustrative Of The Law Of

Contract. By C. S. Kenny. (Cambridge University Press. 20s. net.)—Professor Kenny has abridged the collection of cases made by the late Mr. G. B. Finch, and has added cases......

Fungi. By Dame Helen Gwynne-vaughan. (cambridge...

importance of the fungi is due in part to the fact that they cause so many destructive diseases in plants of economic or ornamental value and in part to their instrumentality in......

Labour And The Moneyed Man. By George Radford. (hodder &

Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Radford's. little book is a plea for the nationalization of banks, of land and agriculture, of mines and transport, as a preliminary to the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Princess Mary : A Biography. By M. C. Carey. (Nisbet. 3s. 6d. net.)—Princess Mary is very young to have......

The Royal Geographical Society Have Published A Compact...

of Foreign Languages Transcribed into English, by Lord Edward Gleichen and Mr. J. H. Reynolds (7s. 6d. net), which will be of great value not only to geographers but to many......

Other Novels.—the Street Of A Thousand Delights. By Jay...

(Mills and Boon. Os.) — This is a collection of stories of the Chinatown of Melbourne. The complete adapta- tion by the Chinese of the streets in which they live to a miniature......

A Text-book Of Economics. By M. Briggs, M.a. (univer- Sity

Tutorial Press. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a scholarly attempt to deal with the whole field of modern economics, and should prove a lucid introduction to the science for those who......

A New Edition Of Standard And Traditional Songs (each 2s.

net), with accompaniments and revisions by Mr. G. H. Clutsam, is being published by Messra.Murdoch,Murdoch and Co. Sally in our Alley, Jock o' Hazekkan, Come Lassies and Lade,......