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The Plate Of St. George's Chapel. By E. Alfred Jones.

(S.P.C.K. 5s.) IN Canon 011ard's series of monographs on St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Mr. Alfred Jones's scholarly and well illustrated account of the plate is of......

999 And All That. By Norman Riley. (goilancz. 5s.)

THIS facetiously titled book is a scrappy and jocose history of the Ministry of Information. It is intended as an attack, but spoils what is—to say the least—an arguable case by......

The Life Of A Painter. By Sir John Lavery. (cassell.

x8s.) ONE of the best stories in Sir John Lavery's autobiography records how Lady Oxford, at a dinner party, said that she wanted him to come and see her Lavery—and promptly......

New Novels

Our Time is Gone is the concluding volume of Mr. James Hanley's trilogy of the Fury family. Without having read the other two books, but assured that this need make little......

War Begins At Home. By Mass-observation. (chatto And...

6d.) MASS-OBSERVATION maintains two groups of observers, one stationed in " Worktown," a northern industrial city, one in " Metrop," a London suburb. This book consists of the......

American Jazz Music. By Wilder Hobson. (dent. Tzs. 6d.) Tins

is an excellent introduction to American Jazz Music, written with knowledge and a sense of proportion, and quite free from the fancifulness and pretentiousness which have......

Shorter Notices

The Provincial Lady in War-Time. By E. M. Delafleld. (Macmillan. 75. 6d.) WAR-TIME finds the Provincial Lady in pretty good form. She starts the war in Devonshire, and, having......