23 NOVEMBER 1934, page 70

History In Rhymes

A Box of Dates for Children. By Geoffrey Moss. (Cobden Sanderson. 5s.) Mon English writers seem to have the itch at one time or another to .write the history of the world. Major......

The Insane Root

The Mystic Mandrake. By C. J. S. Thompson. (Rider. 15s.) As lately as 1916 a labourer at Headington, near Oxford, dug up a root which he believed to be a mandrake ; and the......

A Christmas Cardus

READING old Defoe the other evening, I was brought up by the following : I would propose that the public exercises of ' our youth should by some public encouragement (for......