19 APRIL 1930, page 30

Amateur Collectors Will Find It Worth Their While To Read

The Book of Antiques, No. 2, edited- by W. L. Hanchant lArts and Crafts Publishing -Co., 15s.), because the - several. sections are by expert hands and the numerous......

Mr. Ashley Gibson's Stories Are Generally Amusing And...

in a bitter vein. He has been an editor in Fleet Street, a iree4ance, a soldier, a traveller, and has Met - a host of interesting and notable people, from Henry James to......

If You Have A Rockery In Your Garden With Pools,

or, better ;still, bogs, and a variety of soils, there is no reason -why you should not grow any number of beautiful and unusual orchids. Mr. A. W. Darnell has written "a......

The Late Mr. H. J. Elwes Who Was, As Befits

a President of the Arboricultural Society, the joint author of The Trees of Great Britain (still the most important work on the subject), was also President of the......

, Mr. Ramsay Muir, Who Presides Over The Liberal Party

Organization, has a very poor opinion of the British system of government. , In his new book, How Britain is Governed (Constable, 12s. 6d.), he is mainly concerned to Show -how......

No British Prime Minister Has Been More Generally...

than Lord MelbOurne, except perhaps the late Lord . Balfour. Mr. Bertram Newman's entertaining volume on Lord Meltwitrne ..(Macurillan, 12s. 6d.) should dispel the idea that he......

The Political Quarterly Of April, 1930, Is A,distinet...

on the first number. The initial concentration upon the aims of the Labour Party is not repeated, and there is more, as the " announcement " says, of " the material from which......

Captain Everard Wyrall Is An Indefatigable Military Hi,...

now appears with the second volume of the history of The Kings Regiment (Arnold, 7s. Od.—an astonishingly low price), which carries the regimental story through the years 1916......

Dr. Margaret Smith, Whose Monograph Upon The Moslem....

a keen interest in mysticism and con,' 'siderable knowledge of its documents, has now produced in An-Introduction to the History of Mysticism (S.P.C.K., 4s.) a. -slender and......

Sir James Fowler Is An Eminent Physiologist And It Is

natural that a book from him with the intriguing title of The Sthenies, the Chord Invisible (Macmillan, 3s. 6d.), should arrest the attention. His thesis is that there are a......