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Half Mast Murder, By Milward Kennedy. (gollancz. 7s....

thing about this Story is That the characters in it appear to be human beings : that is, they are neither wholly good, wholly bad, nor- wholly consistent in either. This virtue......

The Whistler's Room. By Paul Alverdes. (seeker....

quality of mingled cruelty and tenderness in this short and moving story. The scene is laid in a Gentian 4rillitary hospital during the War. In a special ward, kept apart from......

The Council On Foreign Relations, Whose Survey Of...

Relations in 1929 we recently reviewed, have issued a new volume of their Political Handbook of the World (1930), edited_ by Walter II. Mallory. This publication affords a most......

Murder Yet To Come, By Isabel Briggs Myers. (gollancz. 7s.

6d.)—One has come to look for Messrs. Gollancz's yellow wrappers as an efficient guide in the search for a good detective story. This one has already been acclaimed winner of a......

In His Introduction To The Bookworm's Turn, A Pamphlet Which

outlines the intentions of the Book Guild (50 Farringdon Street, E.C. 4), Mr. Thomas Burke defines the public for which this new society caters as " that large intermediate......

Much Enthusiasm And Industry Have Gone To The Making Of

the two substantial volumes on Flemish Influence in Britain, by the well-known Scottish potter, Mr. J. Arnold Fleming (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie, 80s.). The first volume is a......

General Knowledge Questions

oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. E. W. Brittain, 93 Woodroyd Road, West Bowling, Bradford, for the following......

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A publication which will be written down as dull by most of us, but which is nevertheless important, is the International Survey of Legal Decisions on Labour Law (1928)......

Readers Who Are Making Any Study Of Social And Sociological

questions to-day will find the monthly International Labour Review indispensable. It may be obtained from Messrs. George Allen and Unwin, price 2s. (id. The January number......

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(Continued from page 335.) How often do we hear people complaining impatiently about the tons and guns, protocols and optional clauses, &c., which the diligence of journalists......