Some Books Of The Week
CHANCE brought to Sir Hermann Gollancz a Latin manuscript recording the affairs of the Carmelite mission at Basra between 1623 and 1733, and he has edited it with a translation......
An Original Book On Palmistry Is A Rare Find :
one that dispenses with all mystical and occult jargon is still rarer. Such is The Hand and the Mind, by Mr. M. N. Laffan (Kegan Paul, 46. 6d.). The author has read widely in......
An Unfortunate Misprint Occurred In Mr. Gwynn's Review Of...
Life of Lord Curzon last week. Lord Curzon met the Leiters in Paris in 1903, of course, not 1923 as was stated.......
Science Progress (murray, 7s. 6d.) Is Always A Useful And
interesting quarterly. The present issue contains in article by Sir Oliver Lodge on "The Nature of Matter and its - Relation to the Ether of *Space," a brilliant attempt to......
No Student Of Political Science Can Afford To Neglect Chris-
tianity and the State, by the Bishop of Manchester (Mac- millan, 46. 6d.). • In this book Dr. Temple's alert and capa- cious mind advances a stage further a mode of thought that......
Mr. Crosbie Garstin's The Dragon And The Lotus...
6d.) is the third new account of a journey across America to Japan, China, and Siani that we have read within one year. The other two books were very good, and Mr. Garstin's......
General Knowledge Questions
°un weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to the Rev. W. K. Fleming, 18 Vicarage Road, Eastbourne, for the following :-......
A New Leap Year Competition
TIlE Eorroa offers a prize of two guineas for the best refusal, in no more than 250 words, of either of the prize-winning proposals of marriage in our last competition,. the......
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