Yachting And Yachtsmen. By W. D. Bowman. Illustrated....
easily and pleasantly written book is this, of ships and sailors of the kind that go dome to the sea for amusement. The pioneer of yachting wa , perhaps Charles II, and Mr.......
David Armyr. By Michael Barrington. (crosby Loek- Wood....
Michael Barrington has .allowed his imagination to play round a case discovered in the notebook of a Scottish lawyer of the sixteenth century, and has re- invested with life the......
Patriotism Is A Good Thing, And Any Movement, Custom Of
book that fosters it is to be commended. We have nothing but praise for Mr. Pease's small volume, which in a series of scholarly papers recounts the different phases of......
Current Literature . Hawkers And Walkers In Early...
Richardson Wright. (Lippincott. 21s.)—This book, in so far as it deals with pedlars, may be described as a conglomeration of entertaining material throwing light upon the......
The Readable Study Of More By The Veteran German Marxist,
Herr Kautsky, is typical of this branch of Socialist propa- ganda. The author frankly admits the difficulty of fitting the Tudor Humanist into the part for which he is cast. It......
Algeria From Within. By R. V. C. Boriley• (hutchinson....
Bodley's book scarcely fulfils the promise of-its title. It gives much information, but this information is 'almost wholly objective ; the reader's mind does 'ncit receive the......
Pandemonium. By Christopher Rover. (richards. 7s....
novel is more unconventional than the story itself. The background is Soviet Russia. But we doubt if the Bolshevik intrigues that give an undercurrent of mystery to the talc are......
A Man Beset. By John Carruthers. (cape. 7s. 6d.)— This
long and engrossing novel is a study of the temperament of a hypersensitive and introspective man, with an alcoholic taint m his blood and a " complex " that makes him alter-......
The Convict Of To-day. By Sydney A. Moseley. (cecil Palmer.
6s.)—Mr. Moseley's authorized investiga- tion of our prisons of to-day" is calculated to bring consola- tion to those of us who think, when we think at all, with poignant......
Tiie Land Of The Rhone. By Hugh Quigley. (methuen. 12s.
Od.)—Many books designed primarily as guide-books for travellers though ambitious in their literary appeal make dull and flimsy reading. Mr. Hugh Quigley's The Land of the......
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