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It Had Been Better For Mr. Meneken's Rather Insecure Reputa-

tion in this country if he had not seen fit to publish this trivial opus, as he might call it, in England. It is only slightly more valuable than his literary criticism, and......

Cross Currents In Europe To-day. By Charles A. Board....

7s. 6d.) Mr. Beard's book is not in the last resort a good book, but it is a very useful one. He is short without being really concise, and long without being really full. It......

The Falsifications Of The Russian Orange Book. Published...

G. von Romberg. Translated by Major Cyprian Bridge. (G. Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.) This pamphlet, issued on behalf of the German Foreign Office, is intended to show that the......

Dr. Oeconomos, The Modern Greek Lecturer At King's...

collected from the newspaper files the reports showing how the Kemalists systematically massacred the Christians in Eastern Anatolia, and how they continued the work in Smyrna......

This Is An Extraordinarily Interesting Little Book As...

Hoover's charming ideas about the United States. Un- fortunately, however, we fear that it is more a statement of an ideal than a reality. Its general note is enlightened......

Child Mediums. By Irene Hernaman. Introduction By G. K....

(St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling. Sussex.) This admirably written little pamphlet calls attention to an evil almost as great as that of the Red Sunday Schools. If the authors......

The Chapbook.

The April and the May issues of Mr. Harold Monro's Chapbook afford excellent material for those who generalize and make comparisons. In the April number Mr. Alfred Kreymborg......

Chambers's Journal.

Mr. Phil Forsyth's tale " Heredity " is a lively comedy of humours in the setting of such novelists as Anthony Trollope and Mrs. Gaskell. It has less subtlety and is more......

Social Life And The Crowd. By J. Lionel Tayler. (leonard

Parsons. 7s. 6d. net.) This essay is a criticism of all simple theories of government, and is based on the modem tendency of social studies towards the recognition of a......

Politics And Sociology.

International Aspects of Unemployment. By Watson Kirkconnell, M.A. (Allen and Unwin. 6s. 6d. net.) We feel that, on principle, and quite apart from its literary or economic......