13 AUGUST 1927, page 17

General Knowledge Competition

THE prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Miss Vaughan for the following :- A Dickens......

When Roads Are Mud, When The. Useful Ford Breaks Down,

or when devious .bush-paths admit. of the employment only of a safari of painfully struggling.porters, aircraft seems to be clearly indicated as the dens ex machina. That, at......

On Sunday, August 21st, The British Broadcasting Corpora-...

making their first large experiment in providing alternative programmes for all listeners, under the regional scheme of distribution. There is an excellent but very technical......

We Europeans Were A Nasty Folk Before Forks Came To

improve our table-manners. We find Erasmus saying that it is absurd to scrape the dirt off an egg-shell with one's finger- nails, when the job can be done more elegantly with a......

Will The Negro Develop Into A Vital And Assimilated Part

of the tradition and future of the United States ? Mr. Paul Green, who writes an introduction to a fascinating bundle of negro folk-lore and poetry entitled Congaree Sketches......

Mr. Cripps, The Well-known Missionary Of Southern...

pleaded the cause of the natives in the columns of the Spectator, and he now states the case at length in An Africa for Africans (Longinans, 9s.). As Mr. Philip Kerr suggests in......

This Week's Books

TuE new suburbs rising everywhere are too often hideous. But they need not be, if competent architects are entrusted with the lay-out and given a reasonably free hand in the......

As It Was Dr. Morgan Who Made Jesus College What

it is to-day—famous alike in oarsmanship and arts, all old Jesus men will buy Miss Iris Morgan's Memoirs of her father, Henry Arthur Morgan (Hodder and Stoughton, 10s. 6d.), who......