19 OCTOBER 1929, page 20

If You Want A Delightful Holiday, Take Ship In A

Greek coaster (the smaller the better). As you weigh anchor, let go your conventional standards of time and dates. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and as it listeth it will......

The Typography Of Newspaper Advertisement. (bean. £2 2s.)...

plea by a distinguished typographer, Mr. Francis Meynell, for recognition of that new specialist in the intelligent design of printed matter—Cicero pro domo sud, in fact. The......

Amid The Welter Of Books On China Mr. L. H.

Dudley Buxton's China : the Land and the People (Clarendon Press, 15s.) is refreshingly novel because it avoids recent history and politics and deals solely with " human......

(" General Knowledge Competition" Will Be Found On Page...

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It Appears To Be The Function Of The London School

of Economics to provide a theoretical basis for the Socialist party programme. Mr. Josiah Wedgwood, in The Economics of Inheritance (Routledge, 12s. 6d.) has developed one......

* * _ _ _ The Art Of Biography Flourishes

just now and has some strange developments. Mr. Edwin Frandon Davis has written 520 very readable pages about Mrs. Eddy (Scribners, 21s.). He poses as a perfectly impartial......

Eastwards (the Blue Peter Publishing Company, Ltd., 12...

Axe, E.C. 3, 5s.) is modestly described in the sub-title as " the superficial observations of an occasional traveller," and the description is an accurate one. The traveller is......

Some Books Of The Week

WITH the connivance of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and with the hope of furthering its aims, the Design and Industries Association have published The......

A New Competition The Editor Offers A Prize Of Five

guineas for the best definitions of humour and wit, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.......