His Master's Voice. By Ivy Low. (heinemann. .7s. 6d.)—a...
story about present-day Russia is something out of the ordinary. Ivy Low, who in her private life is the wife of Litvinoff, the Foreign Secretary of the U.S.S.R., has succeeded......
Fiction
Beginnings A Time to Kill. By Alec Brown. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Guerra. By Alfred Neumann. (Knopf. 8s. 6d.) Anna Perenna. By Alan Sims. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6c1.) A NOVELIST may be......
Some Books Of The Week
A- FRENCH essayist in the tradition of Montaigne and Pascal-. this phenomenon in itself is a potent source of attraction. But Alain (whose real name is Chartier) is important,......
Cinderella's Country House. By Mrs. G. P. Lea. (benn. 7s.
6d.)—Judith, the heroine of Mrs. Lea's book, is rather an exasperating person. While her father lives she is bullied by him, and after his death she is tyrannized over by her......
In The New Addition To The To-day And To-morrow Series,
Eleutheros, or the Future of the Public Schools (Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.), Mr. J. F. Roxburgh does not carry the discussion very much further. He makes the familiar assumption that......
With India So Much In The Foreground Of Affairs To-day,
The Political Philosophy of Rabindranath, by Mr. Sochin Sen (Asker and Co., Calcutta, Rs. 2.8), might profitably be studied, for the poet laureate of Bengal is frank in his......
The Great Scipio Who Conquered Hannibal Had Long Awaited An
English biographer until Captain Liddell Hart, two or three years ago, eulogized him in the brilliant study entitled A Greater than Napoleon. There now appears an elaborate......
General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Mary E. E. Kirwan, 4 Rotherfield Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, for the following......
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