One Of The Most Enchanting Books Published For Some Time-
is Mr. H. Avray. Tipping's, English Gardens (Country Life). There are fifty-two gardens illustrated and described, some of them modern, some of them perpetuating the styles and......
A Book Of The Moment
GAELIC POETRY UNDER THE PENAL LAWS Lxcxv said that to write the history of Catholic Ireland under the Penal Laws a man must draw upon the annals of France, Austria and Spain ;......
The Problems Of Modern Music (dent) Is A Translation From
the German of Prof. Adolf Weissmann. It gives a most thorough survey of the tendencies of modern music, and a criticism of the works of individual composers. Prof. Weiss- mann's......
This Week's Books
IN More Changes, More Chances (Nisbet) Mr. II. W. Nevinson continues his reminiscences. He paints himself (paradoxical as ever) as a quiet, peaceable man, shrinking with horror......
Perhaps Mr. David Masters Is A Little Too Ardent In
his optimism ; he writes of The Conquest of Disease (Bodley Head) with such pride and joy in man's achievements that we might easily- forget how -much misery remains untouched.......
* * * * Mr. C. K. Scott-moncrieff Proceeds Upon
his task of trans- lating Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. The two . volumes Le Cote de Guermantes are now published as The Guermantes Way (Chatto and Windus).......
A New Competition
THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN iN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR......
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