Many Who Knew The Late Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ("

F. C. G.") as a political cartoonist may not have realized that he was a keen student of natural history. But in Nature Caricatures (Country Life, 5s. net) each picture hits off......

The Invocation Of St. Christopher Is, Oddly Enough, The...

at which the ordinary modern man draws nearest the mediaeval religious mind. Washed off the walls of our churches, where passers by could ask his protection from the dangers of......

The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best definitions of humour and wit,, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.......

We Have No Hesitation In Expressing The Opinion That War

Letters to a Wife, by Colonel R. C. Feilding (Medici Society, 15s.) is one or the best 'books written about the War : the nearest approach to it is the — late Donald Monkey's A......

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Some Books Of The Week

THAT wonderful old man, the first Lord Halsbury, who died in 1921 at the age of ninety-eight, has been fortunate in his biographer. For Mr. A. Wilson-Fox, instead of filling two......

A Brief Note Can Hardly Do Justice To Commander King-,

Hall's new book on the conduct and rationale of life as con- trolled ,by the conventions and regulations of human society. Hilary Growing Lip (Berm, 8s. 6d.) is an attempt to......

M. Lenotre Has Raked In The Dusty Corners Of History

for the material of The September Massacres (Hutchinson, 21s.), and brought out of them the personal narratives of certain people who were lucky enough to survive those two days......

The Title Of Paris And London In 1815, By Mr.

P. R. Broemel (Murray and Co. 5s.) is not unattractive and the illustrations from old prints are interesting. But the author takes undue advantage of his sub-title, " With......

There Is More Than Amusement In Miss Doris Langley Moore's

Pandora's Letter Box (Gerald Howe, 7s. 6d.). Her volume, as we learn in the sub title , is "A Discourse on Fashion- able Life," a description of the eccentricities of our Bright......