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The Merttens Lecturer For 1931 Was Mr. Charles Roden Buxton,

and we trust that what he said on that occasion will reach a wider public, now that his lecture has been published under the title of The Race Problem in Africa (Hogarth Press,......

There Must Be Some Inevitable Connexion Between...

golf, for practically every notable player of the game save Mr. John Ball tertius and J. H. Taylor, has written about it. In the old days golfers, though just as keen and just......

Sir Horace Plunkett In His Recent Articles Has Drawn...

to the work of the Foundation named after him. Its Year Book of Agricultural Co-operation, 1931 (Routledge, 10s. 6d.), a substantial volume of six hundred pages, shows how......

The New Volume Produced By The Hakluyt Society, Relations Of

Golconda in the early Seventeenth Century (Bernard Quaritch, 11), has the advantage of being edited by Mr. W. H. Moreland, well known as an authority on Mogul India, and deals......

That A Son's Biography Of His Father Should Be Wholly

dispassionate is hardly to be expected. Thus it is no surprise to find The Life of Field-Marshal Sir John French, First Earl of Ypres, by his son, Major the Hon. Gerald French......

The Presentation Of Poetry Comprehensibly And...

student or reader is a task more frequently attempted than satisfactorily executed, and Mr. L. S. Harris's The Nature of English Poetry : An Elementary Survey (Dent, 5s.)......

We Should Like To Draw The Attention Of Our Readers

to a report reprinted from the Dalhousie Review of an address delivered to the Women's Club of Montreal on The Challenge to Moral Conventions. Professor H. L. Stewart......

Have Politics And Politicians Ceased To Be Funny ? The

" Punch " Summer Number (Is.) makes no mention of either one or the other. We miss those bold political cartoons which enlivened and stimulated Mr. Punch's War-time public. But......

Professor L. B. Namier, Best Known For His Historical...

of eighteenth-century politics, is also a man of affairs who has travelled widely and written for various English journals, including the Spectator. In a slim volume entitled......