13 MAY 1922, page 23

A Century Of Medicine At Padua. By Sir George Newman.

British Periodicals. Is.)—Fair Padua, nursery of arts, cele- brates next week the seventh centenary of the foundation of the University by students seceding from Bologna. Sir......

Aesthetic. By Benedetto Croce. Translated By Douglas...

(Macmillan. 21s. net.)—Benedetto Croce's Aesthetic in the original Italian consists of two parts, Theory of Aesthetic and History of Aesthetic. In the first edition of his......

We Have Received The Report For 1921 Of The Association

of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club, at 436 Strand. It contains much that will interest climbers. Professor F. F. Roget walked for nine hours to attend the Association's......

The Annual Register For 1921, Edited By Dr. M. Epstein

(Longmans, 30s. net.), appears in good time and contains a com- prehensive and on the whole impartial review of one of the most critical years in our recent history. The authors......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice to this column does not necessarily preclude subserpumt resins.) The Geographical Journal for May contains the first part of an account by Mr. Douglas Carruthers of the......

The Day Continuation Schools Defence Committee, At 131,...

S.E. 5, has issued a leaflet, Shall the Con- tinuation, School Continue ? which states very forcibly the case for the new schools set up by the L.C.C. Education Committee last......

Poets And Poetry.

tions from Racine,' has perhaps taught us more about his art than has Mr. Hamilton in his agreeable monograph. 2 The first thing, perhaps, that we notice in comparing the text......

Parsifal. By A. Corbett-smith. (grant Richards. Is. Net.)...

By A. Corbett-Smith. (Same publisher and price.)—With a season of opera in full swing at Covent Garden there should be some demand for these little hand- books. The ordinary......

World Trade And World Recovery. By Mercator. (eveleigh...

Grayson. 4s. 6d. net.)—The author, who has visited Eastern Europe, says that he is " a business man who wants to know why trade stands still and how we shall pay for to-......

Studies In Christianity. By A. Clutton-brock. (constable....

no sufficient reason why the duty of preaching should be confined to the clergy ; and the results of such a ministry as that of Miss Boyden may lead us to desire to see the......