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Elephant Dance • By Frances Hubbard Flaherty

Filming wild elephants in the jungles of Mysore combines, the excitement of hunting and the nervous tension of stage-management. Robert Flaherty was sent to India to make a film......

Cromwell Is The Figure In English History To Whom Herr

Hitler is most often compared. In this short essay (Cambridge University Press,' 3s: 6d:), originally delivered as a lecture • to a German audience, Professor Barker ana- lyses......

Mr. Vale's Little Book (batsford, 7s. 6d.) Can Be Heartily

commended, for he describes with equal livelinegs and accuracy the Northern countryside and the towns that constitute the industrial North. His brief chapters on iron, coal and......

The Annual Register, 1936, Edited By M. Epstein The...

YEAR BOOK, 1937, Edited by 'M. Epstein • CURRENT LITERATURE -. The 178th issue of The Annual Register (Longmans, 3os.) is as useful and informative-as ever. The first part of......

The Land Of Wales By Eiluned And Peter Lewis

The photographs alone would make this book (Batsford, 7s. 6d.) worth buying. They are numerous, excellently reproduced, and well chosen, and anyone who knows Wales at all must......

It Is Surprising That The Story Of Clyde Shipbuilding Has

not been written before. Mr. Blake, the Clydeside novelist, was dearly the right man for the job. :In Down to the Sea (Collins, 22s. 6d.) he has written a fascinating tale, all......