19 MAY 1939, page 42

The Year Book Of Education In The Eighth Year Of

its existence the Year Book of Educa- tion (Evans, 35s.) maintains its former high standards. It surveys the finance, the philosophy, and the organisation of modern education......

The Annual Register (longmans, 3os.) Provides Its...

public events at home and abroad. It is invaluable as a work of reference—not for the factual information con- tained, though this is abundant, but because of the general......

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836-1917 By Louisa Garrett...

biography of the first Englishwoman to practise here with an English medical qualification (Faber, los. 6d.) has been written by her daughter who has, like her mother, attained......

The Encyclopaedia Britannica Follows The Advance Of...

a shadow. It covers the same ground and is only just behind. The Book of the Year, of which this is the second (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 45s.), forms an annual supplement which......

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The English police have a reputation for being wonderful. Mr. Roger Courtney's book (Jenkins, los. 6d.) should earn similar praise for the Palestine Police Force, in which the......

Music Of The Wikek

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