Few Careers Of This Age Have Been So Unexpected, Few
suc- cesses so well deserved, as those of Professor Thomas Okey. Many a man born in poverty has conquered a position in business, in politics, in the world of Letters. To begin......
The Distinguished Sailor Who First Charted The Shores Of...
Columbia and gave his name to its great port is little known, and the carefully-written Vancouver : A Life, 1757- 1798, by Mr. George Godwin (Allan, 15s.), thus deserves a......
Although War Books And War Novels May Continue To Appear
at intervals for the next thirty years (and thegreat War novel has yet to be written—by Mr. Priestley perhaps I), the literature of escape is definitely limited, and in a class......
Some Books Of The Week
NOVEMBER llth, 1918, will go down to history as the water- shed of our time, and, we hope and believe, of all time. War was regarded as part of the scheme of things, peace as......
The Thesis Of The " Symbolic " History Expounded In
Europe's Two Frontiers, by John Gould Fletcher (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 15s.) is that to-day there are two great forces working for materialism in the world—an industrialized and......
Many Writers, And Not Least Among Them Marshal Foch, Have
dealt with Napoleon's first and perhaps most wonderful campaign—in Northern Italy in 1796. Yet Professor Spenser Wilkinson's compact study of The Rise of General Bonaparte......
At This Time Our Thoughts Naturally Go Out To The
millions whose names are inscribed on a roll of honour: "They died for their country." But we can surely spare some of our ungrudging admiration for the heroes of every nation......
(" General Knowledge Competition" And " More Bade* Of The
Week " will be found on page 741.)......
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