18 APRIL 1931, page 18

We Have Received The Preliminary Number Of A New Illustrated

monthly magazine, The Crown Colonist, whose general purpose may be described as that of making every part of the Empire better known to the others. This it will do by means of......

We Have Frequently Recommended In These Columns The...

Pamphlets, and we wish to draw special attention to two of these which are published this spring. As an intro- duction to the series of talks on India now being given, Profes-......

Some Books Of The Week

Tn!►'r Sir Ernest Shackleton in his book, South, told the story of his 1914-17 Antarctic expedition is no reason why Commander Frank Worsley, who went with him in command of the......

The Re-edition Of The Classics Of Our Literature Proceeds...

this year. Vol. III. of Messrs. Methuen's issue of the Works and Life of Christopher Marlowe has now appeared. It contains The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris, both plays......

We Recently Wrote At Length On The Proud Work Undertaken

1•y the combined enterprise of the Shakespeare Head Press and Mr. Basil Blackwell of Oxford, in the issue of a new and complete edition of the works of Edmund Spenser in eight......

Mr. C. E. M. Joad Has Written The First Of

the New Party Broadcasts, entitled The Case for the New Party (1 Great George Street, S.W. 1. 3d.). He stresses the point that the New Party " has come into being not to......

It Is Natural That A Distinguished Police Official And...

investigator like Sir Basil Thomson should take pleasure in disentangling an almost baffling network of intrigue which trammelled the relations of Greece and the Allied Powers......

The Official Notes On Census-taking (c 6) Are Concise And

explicit, if marked here and there by a certain lack of humour as in the remark that one object of the age questions is to ascertain " whether the population as a whole is......