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Mr. J. W. Sullivan Is Well Known As A Popularizer

of modern • mathematical- philosophy: - He undertakes a huge task in Three Men . Discuss IlelatitritY . (Collins). Time and time again we have. had works upon the Einstein......

This Week's Books

ONLY a hardy traveller could make use of all Major -Hugh Pollard's recipes in The Sportsman's Cookery Book (Country Life). Elk, bear and moose are not' easy to come by in......

An Important Publication Of The Week Is,. - Sir...

(Berm). Mr. II. A. L. Fidler calls it " the: matured fruit of his long devotion to Indian inquiries.": It is good to have so serious and responsible a book upon questions that......

Once Upon A Time

Poems. By Vernon Knowles. (Gardner, Barton. 5s. net.) " I HAVE a pig and want a cow ; you have a cow and want a pig; let's exchange." To express some such simple story, as that,......

We Offer Our Apologies To Commandant Mary. S. Allen For

referring to her in our last week's issue as " the late Commandant." Happily she is still alive and still acts as Commandant of the Women's Auxiliary Service.......

Mr. Arthur L. Hayward Has Searched In Odd Places For

illtistrations of early Victorian life in LondOn; and his book, The Days - of Dickens (Routledge), is full of unusual pieces of social . history. The cruel conditions of certain......

The Competitions

The Editor offers two prize.s of f-5 each 1. For anew Tale for Children in not more than six hundred words of prose or sixty lines of verse : 2. For a new " Biography for......