23 MARCH 1929, page 35

There Is Plenty Of Wholesome Powder In The March Forum,

which styles itself " The Magazine of Controversy." Pro' fessor Madariaga leads off with a stimulating article on Spain and America, which is yet another outstanding......

There Are Serious Historical Scholars In America Whose...

the world respects, but there are also, and unfortunately, others who are turning out pseudo-history, meretriciously tricked out in catchpenny frills and written in a sort of......

Couched In A Vein Of Chastely Sensational Journalese, The...

of the last forceful Manchu ruler is related by Princess Der Ling in Old Buddha : Empress Tzu Hsi (Lane, 12s. 6d.). Considering that the author speaks of herself as " a mere......

Some Books

of the Week - WHEN one remembers the awful ravages that have been made on the big game of South Africa, largely by skin-hunting goers, one would hardly credit that people with......

A Timely And Useful Monograph Is Silesia Revisited 1929, By

Lt.-Col. Graham Seton Hutchison (Simpkin Marshall, 2s. Ocl.); The author was a member of the Upper Silesia Plebiscite Com- mission, 1920-21, and knowing the conditions as he......

The Fact That Mr. Ashley Brown's Pamphlet On The Future

of the Railways (Simpkin Marshall, Is. 6d.) has reached a third impression in a few months speaks well for the author and also attests the wide public interest in the railway......

Those Who Appreciate Devotional Reading In Which Literary...

beauty are combined, already know and value Pere Charles' three little volumes of meditations La Priem de Touter les Heures. The enormous success of this book in its original......

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