19 JANUARY 1929, page 24

A Victorian—with A Difference

Sir Edmund Hornby : An Autobiography. (Constable. 18s.) SIR Ennvign HORNBY was a Victorian in the spirit as well as the letter, though he did not belong to the Victorian type......

Leibniz And Spinoza

Leibniz. By Herbert Wildon Carr. (Bann. • 12s. 6d.) THERE are two great philosophers of the seventeenth century, in the profoundest contrast to each other, who are still of the......

Romantic America

On Wandering Wheels . Through Roadside Camps from Maine to Georgia in an Old Sedan Car. By Jan and Cora J. Gordon. Illustrated in black and white by the authors, with a......