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Some 1925 Verse

The Espalier. By Sylvia Townsend Warner. (Chatto and Windus. 5s. net.) THE - cuckoo has changed his note, the nightingales, like Norman Douglas' orioles, are tending to give but......

Books Of The Moment

THE WOES OF A DESPOT [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] Xenophon. Scripts Minora. With an English Translation by E. C. Marchant ; The Scriptores......

The Smallholder Will Find Your Few Acres, By Mr. E.

T. Brown (Chapman and Hall), a very practical and readable publication. It is designed for the man who owns from one to five acres of land, and it offers him a good selection of......

This Week's Books

THERE are fashions in literature, and it seems that of our great lyrical poets few have been so little considered recently as Robert Burns. Editions come out from time to time,......

A Book To Wander Through With Enjoyment Rather Than Read

with application is Mr. Samuel J. Looker's anthology of Cricket (Simpkin Marshall). The history and literature of the game are both well represented. We read, for example, that......

A New Competition

rnE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR......