The Graphic Diamond Jubilee Number Is Something Excep-...

contemporary journalism, for it records in picture form the history of the last sixty years—Stanley meeting Livingstone, Mafeking night in Trafalgar Square, Suffragettes chained......

The Late Dr. J. H. Wylie, Who Died In 1914,

is well remem- bered by historical students for his astonishingly detailed account of the reign of Henry IV and of the first two years of the reign of Henry V, including a very......

Some Books Of The Week

A PARADOX to-day is a platitude to-morrow. Nevertheless, anyone who will wade through English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, by G. L. Apperson (Dent, 31s. 6d.) will be......

Who Were The Khmers ? In The Eleventh Century They

had .5uilt for themselves in Cambodia a great city. Angkor Thom, with its temple, or Vat, where the gods and goddesses of the Hindus still peer through the jungle that now......

Mr. A. F. Fremantle's England In The Nineteenth Century,...

(Allen and Unwin, 16s.), is evidently intended to be the first of several—perhaps many—volumes covering the century. It thus begins with two substantial chapters describing the......

The Competition

WE recently asked a contributor to write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and we received the following reply :—" A short recipe would be murder half the......

It Is Interesting To Compare Professor Saito's Study Of...

View of Poetry (Cobden-Sanderson. Os.) with the writings of English critics. Professor Saito is a Japanese, but his knowledge of English literature is extensive and profound.......

The Forbidden Zone, By Mary Borden (heinemann, Bs.), Is A

collection of stories, sketches, poems and fragments written during four years of hospital work with the French army. They are impressionistic in the extreme, and therefore more......

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