1 MAY 1926, page 19

Impression Ist An D Liberator

The World of Dreams. By Havelock Ellis. (Constable. 6s. Affirmations. By Havelock Ellis. (Constable. 6s. net.) IT is not certain that if anyone were asked to name the writers......

We Have Received Bigger Results From Advertising, By Mr....

Herd (Philip Allan, 9s.), and First Essays on Advertising, by Mr. J. Murray Allison (Cecil Palmer, 10s. 6d.). Both are important business bouks and will be noticed at a later......

Mr. Maclaren Has Written An Excellent Book For Young...

The. Perfect Batsman, illustrating J. B. Hobbs in action by means of a series of cinema pictures, accompanied by expert and detailed explanations. If books could make batsmen we......

Mr. Merlon C. Cooper Is A Young American Who Has

chosen adventure as his profession. In Grass (Putnam, 10s. 6d.) he tells, in uncommonly good English, of the great annual migration of the Baktyari Nomads in search of grass. A......

* * * Messrs. Berm Have Just Issued An Encyclopaedia

of Furniture f£2 2s.), compiled by Dr. Herman Schmitz of the Schloss Museum, Berlin, with an introduction by Mr. H. P. Shapland, editor of The Cabinet Maker. We cannot do better......

* * The Navarre Society Have Sent Us Six Volumes

of Fielding's Tom Jones, three of Amelia, also Joseph Andrews and Jonathan Wild, all edited by Professor Saintsbury. These well-printed and attractive books, with their......

The Late Professor Murdoch Compiled Before His Death The...

comprehensive History of Japan ever attempted. The last volume, which is the result of an enormous amount of research, covers the period from 1651 to 1868. It has been revised......

The Navarre Society Have Also Published The Complete...

in five volumes (23 7s. 6d.) collated and edited by Messrs. J. L. Rayner and G. T. Cook. In the preface the editors tell us that the times of which this calendar of crime have......

A New Competition

The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a " Specimen Day " in not more than 1,000 words. If only four hundred words are used we shall be so much the happier. But we have set the......

This Week's Books

MR. BALDWIN has published a collection of his speeches and addresses (On England, Philip Allan, 12s. 6d.), which are reviewed on another page.......