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Some Books Of The Week

Dn. .T i E , . , NNS, one_ of pis most daring yet cautious of modern astron omers, ha h given us an excellent book in Astronomy and Cosmogony (Cambridge University Press, 31s.......

"scarcely Broke From School," Young Mr. John Bradstreet...

some pleasant Repton Sketches (Benn, 5s.). He will be heard of again, we think, for these essays, although outwardly so literary that they are almost demure, have high spirits......

The Legacy Of Bunyan, By Dr. W. Y. Fullerton, The

well- known Baptist divine (Benn, 3s.), has little fresh insight or interpretation to offer us. But it is written with sincerity and enthusiasm, and is a pleasant enough medley......

Many Oxford Men And Women, And Many People Of All

ranks and callings up and down the country, will welcome the memoir, by his widow, of Arthur Lionel Smith, Master of Balliol (1916-1924), which Mr. Murray has just published......

What Memories Of Sunlit Days And Turquoise Skies Does Not

the Hoghunters' Annual (from Capt. Nugent Head, 94 Piccadilly, 7s. 6d.) recall to this reviewer The curving stream of Shahi in the l3areilly country, which we are glad to see is......

The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for the best suggestions; written on the back of a postcard, as to what to do "if I had 150,000 to give away." The Rev. R. V. H. Burne, who has......

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A facsimile reproduction of Blake's Book of Thel (Gollanez, 10s. 6d.) is a book many will treasure. We congratulate the publishers on the format and printing.......