18 MAY 1929, page 21

", The Lyric Note Of The True Oenophile," As Messrs.

Knopf ' not ineptly (tall it, on the -wrapper of Mr. Morton Shand's A Book of Other Vines than ,French (Ws. 6d.) is never far absent from this wise and witty author. His Book of......

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The latest volume in the "Rescue Series,". issued; by_Messrs. Elkin Mathews and Marrot, is a Scottish romance called From GetieratiOU to Generation. The author was Lady Augusta......

Some Books

of the Week MR. kLIAN GREEN is known as an American author who lives in Paris and writes in 'French. What_ is more singular, he ia ma king a . .reputation, amongst French......

This Little Gossiping Book, Devon Exmoor, By Will...

Cranton, 2s. 6d.) is very readable. How small a portion of Exmoor is in Devon few but Somerset folk, who possess the greater part of it, realize ; but Mr. Sherracombe handsomely......

The Translator's Trade Is A Thankless And An Anxious One

; and, particularly when he is dealing with the luxury article of poetry, one is inclined to forgive him his tricks and sub- terfuges. But in his collection of Spanish Lyrics......

Mr. Richard Coke Has Written A Full And Interesting History

of the ,Arabs in The Arab's Place in the Sun (Butterworth, 21s.). What he says in his introduction of the " high-brow " and "low-brow" specialists (" the high-brow tends to......

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The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in whichls hidden the largest number of names of......