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The International Illumination Congress Will Be Remem-...

for tile flood-lighting of important buildings which delights vast crowds nightly. The delegates haVe been presented by the London Committee with a most attractive pamphlet, A......

The Numerous Modern Reprints Of Mediaeval Mystical Works,...

explorations of Abbe Bremond and other scholars, have restored to us many forgotten spiritual master- pieces. But these, exquisite as they often are, lack that intimate contact......

Reminiscences Of His Experience At The Bar And Sketches Oj

the eminent lawyers whom he has seen and heard make up the staple of Mr. Ernest Bowen-Rowlands' In the Light of the Law (Grant Richards : 12s. 6d.). As the son of a county court......

New Light Is Thrown On A Famous Turk By Professor

Henry Dodwell, in The Founder of Modern Egypt : A Study of Muhammad Ali (Cambridge University Press : 15s.). Pro- fessor Dodwell, well known as an historian of India, views his......

We Have Referred In Past Issues To The Two Volumes

of Mr. Justice Feetham's Report to the Municipal Council of Shanghai and need not again emphasize their importance, which was appreciated by most people, though apparently not......

Without Saying Anything One Way Or Another About The Ethics

of staghunting as pursued on Exmoor and Ifs -neighbourhood (and the author says nothing on this - point either), one readily admits that Memories of - a Stag-Harbourer......

A Library List

LIFE'S A LARK. By Grock. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) JOHN BULL AT HOME. By Karl Silex. (Harrap. - 8s. 6d.) FOOTSLOGGER. By Graham Seton. (Hutchinson. 18s.) THE STONE AGE CULTURES OF......

Reference Books

BEST Bomis OF 1929. (Simpkin Marshall. 20s.) THE ADVERTISER'S " A.B.C." (T. B. Browne, 168 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. 4. 21s.) THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARMAMENTS YEAR-BOOK,......

Alois Musil, Now A Professor (save The Mark !), Was

a great adventurer. For more than twenty years he travelled over the North Arabian Deserts as Sheikh Musa, riding saddle to saddle with Nuri Shalan, Emir of the Rwala. His first......