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OSCAR BROWNING. By H. C. Wortham. Illustrated. (Constable. 16s.)—Happy in the varying complexity Of his subject, which he handles with a pleasant humour, with an impartial irony......

Lamuriac. By Lady Cromer. (methuen. 7s. (id.)— This Is A

quiet and delightful book which will appeal to a varied public. It is a far cry from an old English garden— described with rare charm and humanity—to India, East Africa and......

Church And Parson In England. By The Right Rev. H.

Hensley Henson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 5s.)—Six Ordination 'Charges, that is, addresses to candidates for Ordination, and four Sermons make up......

Motoring Notes

A x-Ew parking light which tills a long felt want is made by the Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co. When a ear has to be parked for any length of time it is most annoying and very......

Unknown Dorset. By Donald Maxwell. (.john Lane....

very welconie addition to that delightful sequence of books about the English countryside, the County Series, so many of which Mr. Maxwell has written and illus- trated himself.......

The Defence Of Piedmont, 1742-1748: A Prelude To The Study

OF NAPOLEON. By Spenser W ilkinson. (Clarendon Press. 21s.)—Professor Spenser Wilkinson has for a generation done much to promote the study of military history and of army......

Straphangers. By Arnold Palmer. (selwyn And Blount....

people you meet in these pages were all put into one 'bus, the conductor would certainly congratulate himself on having so normal a complement, and on his escape, for one......

A Tabloid Tour

The Wye Valley is one of the most lovely districts in England, especially between Ross and Chepstow, immediately below which it joins the Severn. The following is the sug-......