The Photographs Of Swiss Scenery Which Illustrate Rambles...
Savoy (Longman, 21s.) are truly beautiful. Even without the letterpress it would be worth its not very small price. Many of them were taken by M. Emile Gos, who has already......
The Subscribers To The Wren Society, Which Exists To Publish
the documents and drawings that may throw light on the career of the great English architect, are to be con- gratulated on their fourth volume (Hampton Court Palace, 1689-1702).......
" We Sailed Over Perfumed Waters Plumbago Coloured, That...
cool blue of the sea when no breath stirs "—and so on. There is a good deal of this rather opulent style of writing in Islands of Queen Wilhelmina, by Mrs. Violet Clifton......
This Week's Books
Ix a witty and .provocative introduction to a book of Cartoons (Cayme Press, 15s.) equally entitled to both adjec- tives, Mr. Richard Sickert most improperly (and deliberately)......
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane's Health Secrets Have Been...
some time past. As he tells us in his preface to Secrets of Good Health (Heinemann, 3s. 6d.), millions of people have read in the columns of the Daily Mail and elsewhere his......
In Securing Mr. Martin To Edit Their New Edition Of
Crashaw (ti ls.) the Clarendon Press were happy. Mr. Martin has already made himself a reputation for his excellent work on the .Silurist, and, as Mr. Sencourt reminded us in......
For The Visitor Who Desires To Make A Fairly Long
stay in Paris, Mr. Sisley Huddleston's In and About Paris (Methuen, 15s.) should prove invaluable. He knows " the capital of Europe " very intimately; and offers us a delightful......
General Knowledge Competition The Prize Of One Guinea...
Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Mr. W. H. A. Cowell for the following :- Old Testament Questions 1. Whose......
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