20 AUGUST 1921, page 24

The Geographical Journal For August Contains Mrs. Resits...

on her adventurous journey across the Libyan desert to Kufra, and an interesting address by Sir Percy Sykes on " South Persia and the Great War." The most important article is,......

Le Marechal Lyautey. Par Amedee Britsch. (paris : La...

du Livre. 6 francs 75c.)—This well-informed and clever book is at once a biography of Marshal Lyautey and a history of the French occupation and pacification of Morocco. The......

We Have Received A Copy Of The Juno Number Of

The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, an entertaining shilling magazine lately started by the staff of the Bank of England, who are evidently not so aloof from the world as they......

The Income-tax Handbook. By J. L. Ounsworth. (collins....

net.)—This is a useful little book on a painful subject. The author is an Inland Revenue official, but he makes it clear that he is writing unofficially. We can find no specific......

Messrs. Edward Stanford Have Published A Very Useful Map Of

The Pacific Islands (4s. net), showing clearly the ownership of the different groups and the distribution of the mandates for the ex-German territories. The much-discussed islet......

Poets And Poetry.

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.-11I. WE have brought evidence to show, first, that the modern realization of the dangers of unquestioned systems of......

Some Books Of The Lormi.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The July number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester (Longmans, 2s. net.), which is,......