13 DECEMBER 1940, page 28

Captain Nemo At The Organ

Jules Verne. By Kenneth Mott. (Cresset Press. Iss.) a ANYONE who has worked for publishers will know how absorbed they are in the manufacture of biography—thinking out subjects......

The Works Of Gibbon

A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon. By Norton. (Oxford University Press. 215.) EVEN Montaigne complained that there were "more books abo books than about anything......

Dead Knights And Ladies

Alabaster Tombs of the Pre-Reformation Period In England By Arthur Gardner. (Cambridge University Press. 21s.) A FEw weeks ago it was my privilege to refer in these columns to......