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Roads And Their Users.

ECONOMICAL RUNNING.—II. BYLORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU. F CONOMY in petrol consumption can also be effected by careful driving. There is rarely any need for the driver to let the......

Japanese Names And How To Read Them. By Albert J.

Troop and Hogitaro Inada. (The Eastern Press, and Bernard Qwitch. £3 3s.) The art collector has hitherto depended on experts for the reading of details on his Japanese......

Poems And Plays.

M. Cammaerts is a domesticated poet and, a rarer thing, he does not have to go outside the home for emotions to fill up his verse. • It is quite in the Flemish tradition that......

The Arts.

A. Book of Marionettes. By Helen Heiman Joseph. (New York : B. W. Huebech.) Miss Joseph, in pleasantly outlining the history of puppets in all lapis; his not only instructed her......

The Courting Of Mary Doyle : A Comedy In Three

Acts. By Edward McNulty. (Dublin Gill. 2s.) An amusing play of the Irish school, with rather better characterization than many.......

Thli Pamphlet, Issued By The Department Of Ceramics Of The

Victoria and Albert Museum, contains notes and chemical analyses of examples (for the most part damaged) from nearly all the F pglish porcelain ketories of the eighteenth......

To Concentrae Into The Affairs Of A Few Persons A

struggle typical of a , universal condition is one of the most effective ways of teaching real history. The fight for existence made by the first Miners' Union in 1831 is here......

The A.b.c. Of English Salt-glaze Stoneware. By J. F....

(Stanley Paul and Co. 15s.) Mr. Blacker's book is copious and generously illustrated, well indexed and full of the kind of information that the intelligent collector desires.......

The Men In Possession : A - Farce In Three Acts

; and Cough- Water: a Farce in One Act. By J. Bernard MacCarthy. (Dublin : Gill. Is. 6d. each.) These plays are very suitable for amateur production as the setting is simple in......

The Queen's Enemies. The Laughter Of The Gods. The Tents

of_ he Arabs. A Night at an Inn. By Lord Dunsany. (Putnam.. Is. net each.) These well-known plays, which effect a liaison between the Abbey Theatre and the Lyceum, are now......

The Services.

A Chapter of Misfortunes. By Major-General W. D. Bird. (Forster Groom. Ss. 6d. net.) A Chapter of Misfortunes. By Major-General W. D. Bird. (Forster Groom. Ss. 6d. net.) General......

Jane's Fighting Ships, 1922. Edited By Oscar Parker....

42s. net.) This well-known naval encyclopaedia, now in its twenty- fifth year, has been revised with care. The new alphabetical arrangement is to be commended. The editor speaks......

English Church Architecture Of The Middle Ages. By A....

Smith. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.) Mr. Smith's small book is an illustrated glossary showing architectural samples whereby the amateur may label and date details of mediaeval......

A Little , Play, Evidently Written With Intense Emotion,...

visionary's faith in truer means of perception than that of physical sight. The late Sir Arthur Pearson wrote a brief preface, and the author's profits are to be given to St.......