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Do Elephants Lie Down To Sleep ? What Is A

lion's spur ? Are hyenas hermaphrodites ? Those who want to -invent new Just So Stories will find their material in Captain H. C. Brocklehurst's Game Animals of the Sudan......

The Performing And Captive Animals Defence League (17...

Adelphi, W.C. 2) have issued a pamphlet called One Thing and Another, edited by Mr. Edmund T. MacMichael. The pamphlet contains, among other material, Major Yeats-Brown's......

The Fascinating Volume, Entitled A History Of Spelsbury,...

by Miss Elsie Corbett (Long Compton, Shipston on Stour : the King's Stone Press : 6s. 6d.) is the work of .the local Women's Institute, which won the prize offered for village......

The Modern Home

The Art of the Table Pun Design and Industries Association continues its good work with a most illuminating exhibition of British tableware (and a few textiles) at the Medici......

* * * * The Appearance Of The Tenth Volume,

covering the year 1929, of The Year's Work in _English-Studies, edited for the English Association by F. S. Boas (Oxford University Press, 10s. 6d.), serves to remind us once......

To See Ourselves As Others See Us Is Seldom Very

pleasant— witness the recent book by M. Siegfried. By way of exception Professor Kantorowicz, in The Spirit of British Policy, trans- lated by Mr. W. H. Johnston (Allen and......

11 7 Illing's Press Guide, 1931. (willing Service,...

London, W.C. 1. 2s. 6d.)—Rhodesian Manual on Agriculture, Industry and Mining, 1981. (Mining and Industrial Publications of Africa, Ltd. 21s.)—The States. man's Year-Book, 1931.......