Inasmuch As The Mandates System Introduced By The Peace...

is still widely misunderstood, not only in Europe but also in America, Dr. J. Stoyanovsky's able essay on The Mandate for Palestine (Longmans, 25s.) deserves notice. It is in......

Next Week We Shall Review At Length Mr. Townroe's The

Slum Problem (Longman's; Os.). It is the most compact, clear and convenient statement yet published of the present housing situation in Great Britain.......

The Best Idea Of Robert Paltoek's Classic The Life And

Adventures of Peter Wilkins (Dent, 21s.) may be extracted from the title page, whereon the author enumerates the adventures of his hero and of his " wonderful passage through a......

General Maynard Shows In His Murmansk Venture (hodder And...

20s.) that the original purpose of the British expedition to North-West Russia in 1918-19 was to set up a new Eastern front which should relieve the pressure on the West, and......

Those Who Have Enjoyed Lady Paget's Former Volumes Of...

will enjoy also these more intimate recollections which she has just published as The Linings of Life (by Wal- purga, Lady Paget, Hurst and Blackett, 2 volumes, 21s. each). The......

Some -- Books Of The - .week -

Mas. Woon? would seem, like the hero of her new book, Orlando (Hogarth Press, 9s.), to have more than one self. The biographer of Orlando is very different from the pure......

Natural Humorists Are Rare, Say The Publishers Of Mr....

Salvidge's Salvaged Trifles (James Clarke, 3s. 6d.). However that may he,and although Mr. Salvidge's sketches are uneven in their effects there are gleams of good fun in them......

-westward To Mecca, By Sirdar Ikbal All Shah (witherby, 12s.

6d.) is an interesting and original account of a journey through Afghanistan (the author is an Afghan and he tells us a good ghost story whose scene is laid in his native land)......

Balls And Assemblies (john Lane, 3s. 6d.) Contains...

the work- of Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Maria Edge- worth, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, and Mary Mitford. It provides excellent fare for those of weak literary digeitiOri, who......

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A Motor Show Competition

Tnn Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the best "Ode to a Baby Car " received before October 22nd. Entries should be as brief as possible.......