18 SEPTEMBER 1926, page 31

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On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, .Mr. H. G. Wells has Enga ge d in a very youthful and amusing fight with Mr. Belloc, ,whom he accuses of writing arrant 'nonsense in his......

The Australian Farms Training College, So Ably Presided...

Principal Potts, at Lynford Hall, Mundford, Norfolk, send us an illustrated description of the course, together with reeommendations from Lord Forster, Sir Robert Donald and......

Professor Tancred Borenius Writes With Authority And...

Statua and Public Monuments (Methuen, 10s. 6d., with special photographs . by 'E. 0. Winne) and while Opinion may diffei• as te• the 'aesthetic 'qualities of " Rima," we think......

Eat And Keep Well, By Mr. G. E. Scotson-clark (cape,

2s. 6d.) is ,. obviously an American book, for we are not given to those orgies of sweetmeats herein referred to as " a candy jag." Neither would the English employer introduce......

The International Committee On Intellectual Co-operation

of the League of Nations have issued a List of Notable Books published in various Countries during 1924.......

This Week's : Books The Next Instalment Of The...

Opens in Chapter .VI. with an. account of his early studies in Latin, Greek, history, French, science and drawing. He describes in detail Hinzpeter's method of religious......

The Battersea Polytechnic Send Us Their Programme : And...

the session opening, September 22nd. The Domestic science course for women here is one of the best in the world. * *......

Books Recommended

LITERATURE AND HISTORY.-The Bonchurch Edition of The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinbur4. Vols. 13 and 14. - (Heinemann. - 25 gns. the set.) As I Lay Thinking. By Robert......

Rules For Competitions.

(1) All entries from readers in the United Kingdom and Irish Free State must be received on or before October 8th : all entries from other parts of the world on or before March......

The New Competition

MOST of us have made hideous mistakes at some time or other in our lives, posted letters in the wrong envelopes or said something irredeemable and unexplainable. Such tremendous......