To Comment Vigorously Upon The Irritating Things Of Life...
irritating one's listeners is an_unusual feat. .51r-E. Knox in Things That Annoy Me (Methuen, 5s.) very nearly achieves the feat. but not quite. His publishers talk of "a very......
. For Librarians, Club Leaders And Teachers Books To Read,
a guide for young readers published (with the assistance of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust) by the Library Association, 20-27 Bedford Square, W.C. 1, should be extremely......
An Epic Written In These Days Wears A Slightly...
stir. It must either seem archaic or make bold-use of-modern terminology and that needs courage. Courage. Mr. ,Shane Leslie has never lacked : and in The Epic of Jutland (Bent!,......
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It is impossible to have too many editions of Henry Field- ing's The history of Tom Jones. Messrs. John Lane have published this year a large, fat, heavy volume, containing the......
The Halcyon Press Have Published This Year A New Edition
of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Mr. Alexandre Alexeieff's aquatints are suitably mysterious and terrible, particularly that of the monkey playing the......
We Welcome A New Edition Of Mr, H. M. Tomlinson's
T,he Sea and the Jungle (Duckworth, 15s.), which contains nineteen very beautiful woodcuts by Miss Clare Leighton. There ,is also a preface by the author, in which he shows some......
Mr. Raymond :mortimer Has Excelled Himself In " An Essay
on Clothes." which is the introduction to Modern Nymphs (Etehells :old Macdonald, £3 3s.), being, as the sub- title tells us, a series of fourteen fashion plates. He discuss,......
Christmas Gift Books
alit. Walter Carruthers SeIlar and Mr. Robert Julian Yeatman claim to have written a memorable history of England in 1066 and All That (illustrated by John Reynolds : Methuen,......
The Old Book (knopf, 32s. 6d.), Edited And Illuminated By
'Miss Dorothy Hartley, is one of the best mediaeval anthologies that we have seen for a long time, but it has one irritating omission—very few sources of quotation are given.......
. Mr. Oliver Hill's Third Collection Of His Exquisite Photo-
graphic studies of children comes out under the title of Jonquil (Philip Allen, 21s.), and is a pleasant reminder of the joyaof summer. Each study is coupled with a quotation......
Sir Ian Malcolm's Trodden Ways (macmillan, 12s. Fal.)...
some Parliamentary reminiscences, but is mostly composed of short sketches and impressions of travel in Russia, Spain, Iceland, Egypt, Burma and other countries. The best of all......
"whatever Subject Engaged His Interest, Lord Birkenhead...
-it attractive by_ the freshness and courage - of his approach to it, and not the- least merit of his views has always been their provocativeness. Ile never left a subject where......
Some Books Of The Week
THE great need of archaeology at the moment is rationaliza- tion. Many scholars in many countries are digging up the past or theorising about the objects found, and each has......
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