24 DECEMBER 1921, page 26

Some Books Of The Week.

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Geographical Journal for December contains a further instalment of Colonel Howard-Bury's wonderful......

West Africa The Elusive.. By Alan Lethbridge (john• Bale,...

and Danielsson, 18s. net).—Mr. Lethbridge's articles, reprinted from the Daily Telegraph, give a practised traveller's impressions of our West African colonies, especially......

A Wayfarer's Caravan. By A. Alexander. (murray. 10s. 6d....

is a pleasant and amusing account of a caravan tour across England' and Wales and across Ireland to the West Coast. The author does not write like Borrow, but shares his liking......

Illustrations Of The Flowering Plants And Ferns Of The:...

Islands. By Mrs. E. F. Vallentin. (Reeve and Go. £44s. net.). —One welcomes this volume of Mrs. Vallentin, with the accom- panying descriptions by Mrs. Cotton, and regrets that......

Diaries And Cal.endars.—messis D8 La Rue Publish As Usual A

series of Onoto Diaries for 1922, in various sizes; all are well printed and strongly bound, and the prices are moderate. A very thin diary, about four inches high, with a week......

Mn D. Croat Thomson Has Issued For The , Third Year

in sno- cession his Barbizon Hausa : an Illustrated Record (published by the author at 8 Henrietta. Street, Cavendish. Square), in which.le describes, with excellent......

The Biographical Sketch Of Samuel Butler, Prefixed By Mr,...

Jones to the Humour of Homer, &o., has now been issued separately as No. 2 of the Life and Colour Series (Jonathan Cape, 2s. 6d.). It is a charming introduction to Butler, but......

Professor Shafaat Aliwad Khan, Who Holds The Chair Of Modern

Indian History at Allahabad University, is doing excellent work, both by his own researches and by training up a school of young Indian historians. He has now inspired his......

The Christmas My'stery, Arranged By S. G. Carpenter And E.

H. Welsford (Cambridge : Heffer, ls. net), is a very attra.e- Live scheme for a series of sacred tableaux which have already been performed at Cambridge. Carols and hymns, more......

Insurance Against Unemployment. By Joseph L. Cohen. (p....

18s. net.) Mr. Cohen's elaborate treatise, though specially concerned with British and American conditions, gives a useful account of the whole subject. Nearly half the book is......

Thomas Heywood's The Captives ; Or, The Lost Recovered Was

printed for the first time by the late A. H. Bullen in an edition of a hundred and fifty copies only- Mr. A. C. Judson's edition (Yale University Press and Humphrey Milford,......

The Society Of Army Historical Research Founded Last...

we think, destined to have .a successful career. Itsmembership is rapidly growing and the second number of its Journal (Royal United Service Institution) is even more......