12 MARCH 1927, page 35

A New "to-day An To-morrow" Book Which We Can Cordially

commend is Mrs. Sylvia Pankhurst's Delphos, or the Future of Language (Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. 3s. (Id.). We hope to review it shortly.......

Some Purpose, Some Meaning There Must Surely Be In The

differences in handwriting between one person and another. n some future century perhaps character reading will be t ight with the alphabet. At present we are very much in lie......

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Those Unhappy Women Who Had The Misfortune To Be The

consorts of Bluff King Hal have been generally drawn by historians from the personal or domestic perspective, as isolated phenomena that attracted the desire of a lascivious......

Another Child's Book Of The Same Sort, Though More Elaborate

and beautifully illustrated is Hidden Gold, a story of exciting adventure told in verse by Mr. A. K. Barker (John Lane. Os.). "The children now were brought before The brigand......

Many A Serious Reader, Dimly Conscious That England, And...

London, abounds in great collections of books, and yet uncertain how to approach them, will be grateful to Dr. E. A. Baker for the series of lectures which he has edited under......

Art Overleaps All Political Barriers And Has A Common Con-

cern for all sensitive people. In Robert Field, miniaturist, portrait painter and engraver, England, the United States and Canada may each take a lively interest. He was trained......

When This Reviewer Heard

"Daisy and Lily Lazy and silly Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree," declaimed through a megaphone by one of the Mr. Sitwell',......

This Week's Books--

TIMRE are some very jolly verses in In Fairy Town, by Mr. W. K. Burford (Gay and Hancock. 35. 6d.). It is very hard to tell what will appeal to children, but this description of......

Messrs. Benn Send Us A Beautiful Book—decorative...

The pictures are selected by Herr Georg Kowalezyk, and there is an introduction by Herr August Koster of the State Museum, Berlin. Two rams on a vanity box of 4,000 B.C.,......

The New Competition

ALL our readers have doubtless read Vanity Fair. We offer in our New Competition a prize of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on the wrapper of......