12 MAY 1923, page 24

The Fortnightly.

M Camille Mauclair opens this issue - with a just and eloquent appreciation of Sarah Bernhardt—printed, we are glad to see, in the French original. There is much truth in his......

The Ins And Outs Of Mesopotamia. By Thomas Lyell. (a.

M. Philpot. 7s. 6d. net.) Mr. Lyell, for some years after our occupation, served as a civil administrator at Baghdad, when he was assistant- director of Tapu, or what we should......

Poetry. (birmingham : The Merton Press. Is. Net.)

The editor of this magazine hopes, by shouting down " modern " poetry, to gain a hearing for the quieter and more conventional verses of himself and his contributors. He states......

The Contemporary Review.

Sir Frederick Maurice has an important article on " The Armies of Europe." While the Western Allies have reduced their peace establishments and the former enemy Powers have very......

Travel And Topography.

Siwa : the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By C. Dalrymple Belgrave. (John Lane. 15s.) Like all books of travel or topography that are first-hand evidence, this volume rouses the......

The National Review.

Lord Midleton comments on " The Clash of Arms and Portfolios, 1914 and 1918," reproving the Asquith and Lloyd Ge orge Ministries for their incessant meddling with the commanders......

This Magazine Reports Very Thoroughly The Progress And...

Christian missionaries in foreign lands. There are no articles which do not in some way bear on the subject of missions, but much incidental knowledge of native customs may be......

Blackwood's Magazine.

If we were to specify one magazine without which we cannot conceive clubs existing we should say, with confidence, Black - wood's. The May number, as Aisual, traverses the whole......

The Empire Review.

Mr. J. L. Garvin reviews Mr. Churchill's book at length in a most sympathetic tone.- Mr. - Churchill, he thinks, " paid most dear, not for his faults, but for the best that was......