21 DECEMBER 1929, page 26

More Books Of The 'week

(Continued from page 950.) Possibly Prescott is not so widely read now as he used to be ' • he was too much of a romanticist for this sophisticated age. There can be few,......

" Shaves For A Penne, Cuts Hare From Toopence And

oyld and powdird into the barg ain " is part of an eighteenth-century barber's advertiseme nt, and is one of many tickling little scraps out of which Mrs. Lilian Boys Behrens......

Travel

Chasing the Sun [We publish in this column articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who......

The Blue Peter.

It is appropriate to mention on this , page the December number of The Magazine of Sea Travel, The Blue Peter. The Editor, Mr. F. A. Hook, F.R.G.S., is to be congratulated on......

Joseph Hemard—a Critical Study, By Marcel Valotaire...

one of a series of monographs intro- ducing modern French book-illustration to the English reader. Apart from the cover (which is both ugly and meaningless) the format is simple......

The First Volume Of A New Series, The Poets On

the Poets, is Miss V. Sackville-West's Andrew Marvell (Faber and Faber, 3s. 6d.). The essay is an excellent appreciation of Marvell, mide - still more enjoyable by the anthology......

General Knowledge Questions

Questions on " The Army and Navy " Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. G. L. Grant, The White Cottage, Norton,......