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The House Of Memories. By Lady Barbara Wilson....

is a most pleasant book. We use the words as great praise ; such books are becoming rare and are now of the nature of a luxury. In it the writer describes her youth in France,......

Summer Is Optimistically Proclaimed In Every Page Of The...

Summer Number of Punch (1s.) from the lovely lady nn the second advertisement page, whose beauty is due to the correct use of "skin freshener," to the fractious steed who , in......

Theodore Dreiser Has Made His Name World-famous By His Work

a s - 44 realistic novelist,, a carver of huge masses, hacking away, biciv.by blow; until at lost he - achieves a sort of macrocosm of ja Moods, Cadenced and Declaimed.......

Sir Charles Petrie's Little Volume On The History Of Govern-

ment (Methuen, 7s. 6c1.), surveys history broadly from early times to the present day, and is particularly interesting in the later pages. The author is unconventional enough to......

Motors And Motoring

Speed Limits. Licences MOTORING and motor transport have revolut ionized life through- out the country, and progress, both in the industry and in the application of the motor......

Mr. G. S. Sandilands Recites Adequately The Facts In The

artist's life in R. P. Remington in the Famous Water- colour Painters" series (the Studio, Limited, 5s.), and comments with good sense and unteclmically on his art. The eight......

A Library List

mise.....-Eous:—Nooks and Corners of Old Paris. By G. Cain. (Richards Press. 21s.)—The Health of the Mind. By J. R. Rees. (Faber and Faber. Os.)—My Philo- sophy of Industry. By......