Mr. Kenneth Hare Has Compiled An Anthology Of Literature...
with archery. The Archers' Chronicle and Greenwood Companion (Williams and Norgate, 15s.1 is charmingly got up, with exceptionally good type. The illustrations, parti- cularly......
Another Sample Of Fine Book Production Is A Blank Verse
closet drama by John Presland (Noel Douglas, limited edition, 12s. 6d.). It is a work for a few, those intimate eremites of poetry, who have the necessary quietness of mind to......
It Would Be Difficult To Find A More Suitable Story
for Mr. E. MacKnight Kauffer to illustrate than The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a new edition of which Messrs. Etchells and Macdonald have published this......
We Have Recommended Frequently To Our Readers The Best...
magazine which in our opinion is published in the English language, John Martin's Book, The Children's Maga- zine, published monthly at 10 Ferry Street, Concord, N.H., U.S.A.......
A Large And Very Varied Experience Of Angling Has Gone
to the making of Major G. L. Ashley Dodd's A Fisherman's Log (Constable. 10s.), but the pleasure of reading is somewhat marred by the book's pontifical tone, and by the too......
Christmas Books
IT is impossible to have too many editions of the Tales from Hans Andersen, but it is quite possible to have too many illustrated editions of this book. For illustrating Hans......
The Day Is Past, We Suggest, When Rebellious Youth In
its revolt against Victorian sentimentalism. would - likewise jettison such ,homely‘pargo_ as was. proyided by our greater eighteenth or nineteenth century writers. We welcome......
Christmas Cannot Be Gloomy If Mr. George Belcher's Taken...
Life (Alston Rivers, 10s. 6d.) is included in the party. Everyone who knows George Belcher will know what to expect over the legend. " I'm going to see the new Rector ignited."......
Despite The Perseverance Of His Twenty Volumes, The...
James Branch Cabell remains unaltered, and is an acquired taste. So also are the pen drawings of Frank C. Pape. If one likes either (and there is some reason to suppose they......
We Do Not Feel That Mr. John Masefield's Charming Poem,
South and East, is in any way enhanced by Miss Jitcynth Parsons' illustrations, which do not in our opinion convey the atmo- sphere of the poem. It is not possible to illustrate......
Mr. H. G. Wells, We Are Told, Wrote The Adventures
of Tommy (Harrap, 5s.) when he was ill and feeling bored, illustrating the story himself with paints " found in the children's room " ; he then dedicated the diversion to his......
There Is Ample Choice For All Tastes In The Christmas
numbers of Nash's Pall Mall Magazine and Good Housekeeping, pub- lished by the National Magazine Company (Is. 6d. each). When we are given a list of contributors (as in the case......
Readers Of The Spectator Are Already Acquainted With The...
of Miss Eleanor Sinclair Rhode, and they will, we feel, welcome her Garden Lovers' Days and Star Lovers' Dolls. These two books, published at 3s. 6d. each, by the Medici......
No Better Title Could Possibly Have Been Found For Mr.
William Nicholson's collection of drawings (Faber and Faber, 2s. 6d.) than The Book of Blokes. Their " blokishness " is evident in every line. The drawings are extraordinarily......
In Game Birds (eyre And Spottiswoode, £3 3s.) Mr. Hugh
Pollard points out that in spite of our increased population (and we might add, agricultural distress) more gun and game licences are taken out than ever before, pheasants are......
Another Book On A Similar Subject, Is Gamonia, The Art
of Preserving Game, by Lawrence Rawstorne, which was first privately printed in 1837 and distributed to the author's friends. We have received a new edition, sumptuously bound......
Mrs. Stanley Rogers' Book (published By Harrap. 7s. 64.),...
. was reviewed in last week's Spectator, was misnamed Sea-Love. It should have been Sea-Lore. In our advertise- ment pages the author of The Parables of Our Lord (Religious......
We Are A Little Disappointed With Valenti Angelo's Illus-...
of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Daly (Bodley Head, 25s.), although their style is in keeping with the period. But Laurence Sterne is a difficult author to......
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