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Mr. C. S. Forester's The ,voyage Of The "annie Marble"

(Lane, 8s. 6d.) points the way to a delightful and cheap holiday. This is the way the author and his wife got it : by motor- dinghy from Rouen up the Seine to St. Mamme,s ; by......

It Is Not Often That We Have The Pleasure Of

reading such sober and enlightening criticism as Mr. J. A. Chapman gives us in his Papers on Shelley, Wordsworth and Others (Oxford University Press, 6s.). Their distinguishing......

Mr. Isaac Goldberg Describes His Gilbert And Sullivan...

as "The Compleat' Savoyard." In aim, and to a good degree in accomplishment, this book of generous proportions is even more than the sub-title claims for it. Much has been......

Some Books Of The Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Ficriox.—All Quiet on the Western Front, by E. M. Re- marque ; Doctor Arts, by Robert Hichens......

* * * * It Seems That Small Girls Have

always been noted for worldliness, vainglory, chattering, pertness, and love of personal adornment ; and, in consequence, education has been mainly directed towards removing......

In The Story Of San Michele (murray, 16s.) Dr. Axel

Munthe sets out to describe how he fulfilled a vow, made as a student, to possess the ruined chapel of San Michele and the garden where once had stood the imperial villa of the......

The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in which is hidden the largest number of names of......