11 JUNE 1927, page 16

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This Week's Books

Iv ever a woman disproved the cynical proverb "Si jeunessc sava it , Si oleillesse pouvaz 1 " it was the PrincesSe des Ursins,whose biography by Miss Maud Cruttwell has just......

If We Were Asked To Recommend A Really Amusing And

at the same time informative book which can be read , by a quick reader between tea-time and dinner, we should recommend Mr. Bmilenger's A Naturalist at the Dinner Table......

It Is Difficult To Know What Sort Of Books Are

the most popular with children, these days, but if verse appeals to the very young at all, Mrs. .Agnew's Let's Pretend (J. .Saville and Co., 5s.) should be one of the best......

We Have Received From Messrs.-stanford A Section Of Thil...

motoring map for Italy, for which they are the Englislt agents. The map is complete in thirty-five sheets, at Is. 6th each. The same cartographers send us a section of the foci......

An Excellently Written Book, And One That Probes Very Deeply

into the fundamentals of life, is Professor J. Arthur Thonison's Towards Health (Methuen. 7s. 6d.). Our. readers have often had the pleasure of reading Professor Thomson's......

In Connexion With The Article We Publish On P. 1016

on the date of The Walsons, it is worth mentioning that a 11CISI edition of the book has just been published by the Oxford University Press at 7s. .6d.......

The Summer Number Of Country Life Is " - Bigger And Better'?

than ever, and to the present writer, at any rate; many o, its advertisement pages are as attractive as the text. TherR are some wonderful natural - history photographs (as......

We Welcome A New Volume Of "the Wisdom Of The

East " series An A nthology of Modern Indian Poetry (Murray, 35. 6d.), which should contribute to the good cause of sympathy between East and West. In the verse of Inayat Khan......

The Late Sir Reginald Hennell Has Left The Public An

interest- ing and at times inspiring record of his old regiment, the 2/5th Mahrattas, in A Famous Indian Regiment (John Murray. l2s.). Before 1914 the Mahrattas were considered......

Competitions

Tim Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best philosophy of lift which readers can write on the back of a postcard. We shall attempt no definitions nor shall we ask our readers......