Mr. Edwin Muir's John Knox : Portrait Of A Calvinist
(Cape, 12s. 6d.) is a curious performance, half satire and half a grudging eulogy. The author makes fun of the conventional phrases in which Knox and other sixteenth century......
For Serious Students Of Foreign Policy Professor Arnold...
of International Affairs, issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is in- dispensable. The volume for 1927 (H. Milford, 24s.), contains a......
Nothing Is More Noticeable In Modern Life Than A Tendency
to study food values and a determination to see that the household dietary is rightly . apportioned. For those who feel that they generally eat too much meat, but are bewildered......
Answers To Questions On Laughter
1. Second Council of Carthage.-2. Burns in Tam o' Shanter. —3. Sarah (Gen. xviii. Cymbeirie (Act I., Scene 6). — 7 5. Milton in L'Allegro.----43. France.-7. Ella Wheeler......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 252.) If any reader is disposed to spend an afternoon in Hadrian's Villa, or to dine at Frascati ; see Ostia or Tivoli ; view the emerging galleys of......
Mr. H. R. Pyatt, In Below The Threshold (basil Blackwell,
2s. 6d.), shows great skill in versifying, and here and there are striking, lines both light and serious. "A gleam of lacquered eyes" shows us his cat, and "Lux in Tenebris "......
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