14 DECEMBER 1929, page 32

" Know Thyself "

WHEN a scientist, even a scientist with an international reputation, throws off his gown, he is often a human and entertaining companion. In fact the best scientists are always......

Fiction

Going to Seed (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.) Watkins. (Elkin Mathews and The Lacquer Lady. By F. 7s. t3d.) Background. By Noel Forrest. THE atmosphere of the two more important of......

The Laughing Queen. By E. Barrington. (harrap. 7s....

author says, in prefacing her new romance of Cleopatra : " There are few studies more ironical than hers, few in which history more definitely throws aside her almost invariable......