14 JANUARY 1928, page 19

We Welcome The Issue Of A New Quarterly, Published By

Messrs. Philip Allan at 5s. The Police Journal is well written and illustrated and contains much Imperial information, also an interesting article on Jack Sheppard.......

Dr. Paul Dahlke In His Learned Buddhism And Its Place

in the Mental Life if Mankind (Macmillan, 12s. 6d.) deals with the constituents of actuality, dependence, simultaneous arising, rebirth, nirvana and cognate subjects, familiar......

Three Timely Books On Winter Sports Are Letters To Young

Winter Sportsmen (Philip Allan, 10s. (Id.), by Mr. Brian Lunn, whose father has done so much to popularize Switzerland: Winter Sports Simplified, by Mr. H. G. Stokes (Thornton......

The Canadian Bank Of Commerce _ (2 Lombard Street, Ec.

3) sends us an interesting booklet on The Mineral H'ealth of Canada, which deserves the attention of a wider publio than that of the international investor. The greatest oppor-......

Received Too Late For Insertion In Our Article On December

17th, on "Books that have Helped Well-known Men," the following post card from H.H. the Aga Khan, who is one of the great chiefs of Islam, will interest our readers : "The three......

The Record Published Its Centenary Number Last Thursday...

is the oldest Church newspaper in England. Although we differ in our views we are one in our desire that peace and good order should prevail in the Church ; to this good end the......

Some Books Of The Week The Publishers Of I Escape,

Messrs. John Lane, accept . responsibility for the apparent egotism of the title, which • the author only accepted after strong protest. Captain • j. II. Hardy, indeed, is as......

Three Pamphlets Of Messrs. Bean's Sixpenny Series Deserve...

First is Mr. Hartley Withers's Money. Not only does Mr. Withers succeed in making his subject clear, but he is fair also to the bimetallist and to the anti-gold- :standard......

An Exposition Of Relativity Without Mathematics Is An...

which has often been attempted before, but we feel that Professor Rice succeeds where others have failed largely because he clears the ground thoroughly in his first five......

The Mysterious Kundalini, By Dr. Vasant G. Rele (tam-...

Bombay, Rs. 3 annas 8) is a curious little book which will be gibberish to those who have not studied the Tantrik system of philosophy, but which will interest those who have.......

A New Political Competition

THE Editor offers two prizes of ten guineas each for the most practicable programme for the next Unionist Government. One prize will be given to women of under twenty-five years......