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• * * * * Every Menu In Mrs. Leyel's

rather delicious little book, Meals on a Tray, can be prepared in half an hour. In Provence," she writes, " the tray would hold an omelette aux fines herbes and a bottle of via......

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A more amusing booli on health is Nature's Mealtimes, a pamphlet by Mr. H. K. Whitehorn (Watts. 6d.). We learn that a dish of tripe and rice takes only an hour to digest, while......

Messrs. Berm Publish A Very Charming Edition Of S'oogs Of

Experience (12s. 6d.) with Blake's original drawings in colour reproduced from the copy in the British Museum. It would make a delightful present.......

This Week's Books It Is Hard To Make A Road

itinerary interesting to read for its own sake, but Mr. Prioleau succeeds brilliantly in his Little Motor Tours (Seeker. 3s. 6d.). This small but singularly delightful volume......

Men Of Science And Their Discoveries And Pioneers Of...

(Harrap's " Readers of To-day," ls. Od. each), by William and Stella Nida, are two excellent and very simply written volumes which every boy and girl should have. " The Friar of......

We Have Received The First Ten Volumes Of The Kings'

Way Classics," published by Messrs. Collins at 3s. 6d. each. Five of these are now issued for the first time in book form : Life at the ' Mermaid,' by Mr. J. C. Squire ; From My......

Herr Zoellner Asks Us To Consider For A Moment The

dance cosmic atoms. We have one soul, but a billion atoms, in he United States that is our body. We may have a microbe ' f Napoleon in us, or a speck of Goethe. But what has......

In Our Opinion, Mr. Kingsland's Anthology Of Mysticism...

Philosophy (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) suffers from two prevalent defects of such works : firstly, that the Aryans, in whose brain first blossomed the flower of spiritual thought, are......

Better Than Cure (noel Douglas. 6s.) Is A Handbook On

public health propaganda founded on the experience of the authors in Bermondsey. " Only an optimist expects a woman to be reasonable," the authors write, but this pronouncement......

So Many Books Concerning The Shanty Have Been Written Within

recent years that Miss C. Fox Smith feels she owes her readers an apology for pursuing the subject further. As a matter of fact, A Book of Shanties (Methuen, 6s.), with its......

The New Competition

TIM Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come......

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1. All entries must be received on or before Friday, May 20111, 2. Competitors may send in as many entries as they wish, but each entry must bo accompanied by the coupon to be......