21 JANUARY 1928, page 20

Art Lovers Have Come To Look For The Barbizon House

_Record, which Mr. D. Croal Thomson has produced every Christmas since the War. In this charming annual he reproduces and comments upon some of the more notable pictures,......

The Federation Of Swedish Industries Send Us Industry In...

an excellently printed and illustrated volume in English. The famous match industry is briefly dealt with— we should have been glad to read more on the subject. It is a......

. , A Privately Published Symposium Of Reviews Of Miss

Mayo's Mother India can be obtained from the printers, MessrS. J. A. Thompson, South John Street, Liverpool. The reviews given are sensible and written by experts, but only......

Mr. Gordon Home's Canterbury Of Our Grandfathers And Of...

(published by the Homeland Association, 3s. 6d.) is, correctly speaking, a picture-book, though it contains a good many pages of clear and adequate description. Mr. Gordon Home......

, Mrs. Fawcett And Miss E. M. Turner Have Written

a eulogy upon Josephine Butler specially for the Josephine Butler cen- tenary (The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 2s. 6d.). Biography overloaded with praise is apt to......

Canon Odom's Sketches Of Historic Personages In Sheffield...

and Sons, Sheffield, 3s.) is of more than parochial-interest. With simplicity and charm he tells of the celebrated people whose lives have touched the great steel centre,......

The Department Of Overseas Trade Send Us Their Excellent...

edition of the Catalogue of the British Industries Fair to be held simultaneously in Birmingham and London from February 20th to March 2nd. The catalogue is published six weeks......

Some Books Of The Week

Yzi' another book about food comes to us from the Oxford University Press—Dr. Callow's Food and Health (2s. 6d.). Edmund Kin, the author tells us, is said to have altered his......

A Political Competition

THE Editor offers two prizes of ten guineas each for the moat practicable programme for the next Unionist Government. One prize will be given to women of under twenty-five years......

General Knowledge Questions

A NUMBER of correspondents have written to point out that there was a , serious error in both question and answer -in the third of our General Knowledge Questions last week,......

The Short Story Competition

OWING to the very large number of entries received for the twenty guinea Short Story Competition, it is impossible to publish the result until February 4th. Will competitors be......