14 APRIL 1928, page 29

Some Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 571.) Maurice de Pange appears to have been a very charming boy and, in The English Schooldays of a French Boy (John Lane, 3s. 6d.), we may read his letters......

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The famous agreement of 1924 in respect of German repar- ations will soon be tested to the uttermost, as Germany, after four years, will have to pay £125,000,000 annually to the......

Finance—public & Private

Brighter Budget Prospects WHEN Mr. Churchill rises to make his Budget Statement on April 24th, it will not be necessary for him on this occasion to apologize for the previous......

No One Is Going To Quarrel With Mr. Stirling Taylor's

facts, which he presents both succinctly and wittily and in such a way as to make his Oliver Cromwell (Cape, illustrated, 12s. 6d.) eminently worth reading. But his inferences......

The Noble Artifice Of The Sonnet, As Mr. Lynd So

aptly reminds us in The Silver Book of English Sonnets (Pleiad Press, 218.), "has continued century after century to appeal to great poet after great poet in the full tide of......

It Was With A Real Feeling Of Pleasure That We

opened the late Mr. Stuart Wortley's Letters from a Flying Officer (Oxford University Press, 8s. 6d.) and read the preface by Mr. bilff Cooper and Colonel Buchan. To those who,......