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Cesar Ritz By Marie Louise Ritz

This biography (Harrap, I2S. 6d.) of the famous hotelier Cesar Ritz, by his wife, is interesting not only as a success story but as a sort of footnote to the social history of......

Mr. Rosenthal Has Shown Great Industry And A Lively Sense

of the picturesque in his compilation of connexions grave (and less grave) between Africa and the United States (Routledge, I5s.). The common Dutch origin of New York and the......

Readers Who Come To This Book (gollancz, Jos. 6d.) In

search of reminiscences about Yeats, Lady Gregory and other early figures of the Irish literary movement will be disappointed. They are touched on only incidentally, and the......

Mr. Todd's Spirited And Unconventional Sketch Of Ancient...

and Stoughton, 9s. 6d.) can be warmly commended. It is based, he says, on a series of lectures that he gave at his school, and this goes far to explain its easy narrative style......

Ego Iii

CURRENT LITERATURE By James Agate Few living authors have dignified their careers with three volumes of reminiscence ; if the omens are read aright, none will be able to rival......

Guilty As Libelled By Archibald Crawford, K.c.

"There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford " might be the text of Mr. Crawford's thoughtful and interesting book on crime and punishment (Arthur Barker, los. 6d.). In......

Rococo By A. E. Grantham

Mrs. Grantham's "Life and Times of Prince Henry of Prussia", 5726-1802 (John Lane, refs. 6d.) is a discursive book in which the sorry hero is often eclipsed by the" tasteless......