Europe In The Seventeenth Century. By David Ogg. (black....
AN up-to-date work of moderate compass, dealing adequately with European history in the seventeenth century, has long been needed. Mr. Ogg's book admirably meets this want. The......
Vivm Impressions Of A Capital Of Contrasts, Of Latest Crazes
and disappearing customs, of wealth and penury, sights and sounds of city life hidden by their familiarity, set down with a capable and humorous touch. Laughter jostles pathos......
Sir Michael O'dwyer On India
India as I Knew It, 1885-1925. By Sir Michael O'Dwyer, G.C.I.E. (Constable and Co. 18s. net.) Sm MICHAEL O'DWYER is a delightfully discursive Irishman, and some of the......
This Authoritative And Historic Account Of Shale Known...
Japanese art, of which genuine examples may still be dis- covered without difficulty or expense, should appeal to the small collector. Netsukes, carved objects worn at the......
Robert Harley, Earl Of Oxford. By 0. B. Miller. (blackwell.
3s. 6d.) IN this essay, which was awarded the Stanhope Essay Prize at Oxford this year, Mr. Miller makes a useful and well- documented contribution to the study of a somewhat......
This Volume Represents The First Attempt Which Has Yet Been
made to survey the economic development of the Empire as a whole. The thoroughness with which Professor Knowles has studied the official sources of information and the lucidity......
Current Literature
TICE situation in China is of grave import to Great Britain, and yet is almost entirely incomprehensible to most British readers. In these circumstances the new edition of Mr.......
Life's Little Laughs. By Melesina Seton Christopher....
LIFE'S LITTLE LAUGHS. By Melesina Seton Christopher. (Longman. 6s. 6d.) IT is sad indeed that this little collection of essays is the last we shall see from the gifted pen of......
The Young Delinquent
IT is difficult to realize that less than a century ago children were liable to death or transportation for petty offences, and that there is, for instance, a case on record of......
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