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(Continued from page 853.) Is the machine, as an overwhelmingly preponderating influence in civilization, merely a Satanic device destined, and intended by "the Spirit which......
Finance—public & Private
The Rubber Collapse By no means for the first time in Stock Exchange history the public is discovering the danger which lurks in boom prices. In 1925 the price of rubber was......
Mr. G. Venkatachalaur Has Republished A Number Of His...
to New India a volume he calls Mirror of Indian Art (Taraporevala, Rs. 2). This little book serves a useful purpose in acquainting the English reader with the manner in which......
We Should Like To Draw Our Readers Attention To A
very useful book, particularly at this time of the year, On Motoring in Scotland, a series of short articles, illustrated by maps, reprinted from the Glasgow Herald (George......
Miss Bapsy Parry Has Conceived And Carried Through An...
project in re-telling the stories about women in Firchiusrs Shahnama. Her book is called The Heroines of Ancient Persia (Cambridge University Press, ids.) and will serve as an......
As A Bedside Book, We Can Think Of No Better
than the selections published under the title of The Leacock Book (The Bodley Head, 5s.) edited by Mr. Ben Travers. The extracts are short, entertaining, and absurd, and will......
The New Edition Of Gli Alberghi In Italia, 1930 (italian
State Railways Office, 16 Waterloo Place, S.W.1, Is.) gives a much more complete list of hotels and their tariffs for the use of travellers in Italy. It is interesting to note......
Mr. Meade Minnegerode, If Comparisons Are Not Odious, May Be
designated as the Lytton Strachey of the United States, for he has the latter's verve and subtlety, and his power of illuminating a crowded canvas, although not, perhaps, his......
In Her Peeps At Politicians (philip Allan, 3s. 6(1.), Which
were originally published in the Daily Herald, Miss Ellen Wilkinson has succeeded in being on the whole fair and witty, without being bitter. Her little pen-pictures are......
Answers To Questions On Geography In Allegory
1. Amaurote, on the Anyder (More). 2. Through Kubla Khan's - Xanadu- (Coleridge). . The • Delectable Mountains (Banyan). -4. Atlantis.-5. •In "The Country of the Blind......
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