13 APRIL 1929, page 20

In Car And Country—week-end Signposts To The Open Road (j.

M. Dent, 5s.) Mr. John Prioleau gives a series of reflections on nearly every part of England and Wales, " as seen in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, by the author from his......

The Vie De Bolienie Of Paris Has Been Celebrated...

in various novels and in at least two languages, but when one of Bohemia's chief ornaments, M. Carco, sets down his recollections of actual poets, painters and ehansonniers-......

Mr. Herman Cohen Has Essayed A Formidable Task In His

History of the English Bar and Atlornalus to 1450 (Sweet and Maxwell, 30s.), but those who read it will be rewarded, for Mr. Cohen is a learned, painstaking, and agreeable......

Outside The Ranks Of The Regular Customers At The Party

booths there is still a large floating population which has no intention of buying British goods just because they are British, nor of rushing to buy the standardized article in......

Some Books Of The Week

CARICATURE, says Mr. C. R. Ashbee, in his book of the same name (Chapman and Hall, - 21s.), " is an essentially English way of laughing," and then he devotes the whole of his......

The Republic Of Haiti, Though It Has Existed As An

inde- pendent community for more-than a hundred years, is still an experiment in negro state-making. It Is, of course, very easy to sneer at the puny efforts of the African to......

(" General Knowledge Competition" Tom Be Founds: Page Viii1)

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The Competition

TIM Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves ' in the experience of com- petitors or their friends. Stories should be true,......