14 MAY 1937, page 30

Current Literature Mr. Nicolson Concludes One Of These...

6s.) with, " There ! I have actually written an essay which is not disagreeable," and one wonders, surprised by such self-misinterpretation, whether he considers all his readers......

In This Useful, Straightforward And Interesting Little...

6d.), Mr. Bell tells again a number of the best-known stories of the English voyages of the sixteenth century, out of Hakluyt. It may be said to be a resume of the Principal......

Icy Hell By Will E. Hudson

The author of Icy Hell (Constable, los.), for 3o years a news cameraman, joined a hunting and collecting ex- pedition to the coasts and islands of the Behring Sea. The party......

A Song Catcher In The Southern Mountains

By Dorothy Scarborough The work of the late Cecil Sharp has familiarised us with the idea that in the Appalachians the inhabitants have pre- served many of the songs and ballads......

Pamela's Daughters By Robert Palfrey Utter And Gwendolyn...

Daughters (Lovat Dickson, iss.) is a lively history of the heroine in fiction since Richardson. After the rise of Capitalism, woman was faced with the fact that " gentility......

Miss Joy Langton Is The Niece Of The Late Mr.

Charles Gordon-Frazer, the artist, and Cannibal Feast (Herbert Joseph, los. 6d.) is the story of his visit to the New Hebrides where he witnessed the cannibal feast which was......