19 MAY 1939, page 36

Hannah Lightfoot

The Lovely Quaker. By John Lindsey. (Rich and Cowan, ifs.) VERY little is known of Hannah Lightfoot. She married a Mr. Axford in 1753 at the Quaker Meeting-House or at Keith's......

The Business Life Of Savages

MANY people nowadays feel on intimate terms with the domestic lives of the Trobrianders, and soon the economic habits of the Tikopia may be equally familiar. For this island of......

A Traveller Of Sensibility

Eastern Visas. By Audrey Harris. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) THERE is a saying of Confucius quoted by Miss Harris which she might fairly have taken as the motto for her book : "If you......