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The Richards Press Has Reprinted The Abbe Dimnet's...

of essays, From a Paris Balcony (6s.). The volume is one which we would especially recommend, for its every page makes for better international under- standing, and therefore......

In A Recent Number Of The Publisher And Bookseller, A

table was published classifying and enumerating the books published in the United Kingdom during the year 1929. It is surprising but none the less true that there were one......

Lord Balfour's Home Near Edinburgh Has Found A Very Com-

petent historian in the parish minister, the Rev. Marshall B. Lang. The Seven Ages of an East Lothian Parish, being the Story of Whittingehame (Edinburgh : Grant, 10s. 6d.), is......

Mr. Bernhard Berenson Has Been, For A Whole Generation, An

inspiring guide to all serious students of Italian painting. His famous Essays on the painters of Venice, Florence, Central and North Italy, with lists of the works that he......

We Are Grateful To Mr. Edmund Blunden, Captain Cyril Falls,

Mr. H. M. Tomlinson, and Captain R. Wright for the list, compiled for the National Home-Reading Union, of books which will guide us through the welter of War books that have now......

Mr. Laurie Magnus Has Written A Very Able And Impressive

book on The Jews in the Christian Era (Benn,' . 15s.), tracing the successive movements of thought in Jewry and its influence upon Christendom rather than emphasizing, as so......

Mrs. Martineau's New Cookery Book, From Cantaloup To...

Sanderson, 5s.), is a welcome addition to her previous Caviare to Candy. Most people are delighted to hear of fresh ways of cooking vegetables, and both those who pride......

The Competition

IN his Country Life article of November 30th, Sin W. BEACH THOMAS suggested that " what we want is really some little rhyme that will be the motto of the "tidiers." We,......

Professor Arnold J. Toynbee's Survey Of International...

an established institution which we take for granted. But it would be churlish not to praise the volume now issued for 1928, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of......

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Some Books Of The Week

THE French Foreign Office, following the example of Germany and England, has begun to publish its archives in so far as they illustrate the origins of the late War. The period......