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A Journey Round My Skull By Frigyes Karinthy

This unusual and extremely interesting book (Faber, 8s. 6d.) is the patient's history of an illness and its cure. Mr. Karinthy is apparently one of Hungary's most prominent......

All The Way Round: Sea Roads To Africa

By C. Fox Smith This is an unusual sort of travel book. Miss Fox Smith, long famous as a writer on ships, had always, since reading Rider Haggard as a small girl, had a......

In Victorian Days By Sir David Hunter Blair

Sir David Hunter Blair, the Abbot of Dunfermline, has a remarkable memory, an enquiring and receptive mind, and a mellow style. These miscellaneous and tantalisingly brief......

Light Industries In Scotland

In the course of their valuable surveys of Light Industries in Scotland (Scottish Economic Committee, 19 Blvthswood Square, Glasgow, is. 6d.) the seven experts appointed by the......

Current Literature

T. E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS By Robert Graves and Liddell Hart These two very finely produced volumes (Faber, to5s.) contain a great mass of information about T. E.......

Uncle Lawrence By Oliver Warner

This short and charming book (Chatto and Windus, 5s.) is an account of a visit which Mr. Warner paid some fifteen years ago to an uncle who lived on a small island in Lake Erie,......