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A Little Book By Mr. J. Henry Jones. Healing By

Manipula- tion (Watts, 2s. 6d.), written entirely for ordinary readers, explains very clearly the theory of " Chiropractic "-that the majority of diseases arise from pressure on......

This Week's Books

Six new volumes of that. excellent series, the New Adelphi Library, suitable both for the pocket and the shelf of well-loved books, have been issued. They are Dramatic Se q......

We Have Received An Advance Copy Of The Poppy Day

Report for 1925, issued by a department of Lord Haig's British Legion Appeal Fund. The Poppy factory employs 190 almost totally disabled war veterans, and is, of course, an......

" A. E." Has Published His Collected Poem's (macmillan, I0s.

lid.), which will be nwiewed . shortly. • Another notable volume of poetry is Mrs. Mitchison's The Laburnum Branch (('ape, 5s.), but we trust-no reader will ever address a woman......

Swinburnc Is Master Of A Stately Prose That Marches To

it conclusion like a ',Guards' platoon and in Vol. XI. and NIL of the Bonehureh edition of the Complete Works of Algerno,, Charles Swinburnc (a sumptuous edition published by......

A Most Interesting Historical Memoir Of The Tower Of The

Quth and the surrounding buildings has been published in the Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, by Mr. Page, the Superintendent of the Survey. There are some......

'the Title Of Messrs. Dent's In Jacob Behmen's School...

in our last issue is as now given. In the same issue William Penn's delicious Fruits of Solitude (issued by Constable at 3s. 6d. with a preface by Sir Edmund Gosse) became by a......

The Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds Has Issued

its thirty-fifth Annual Report. Not only the English country- side but the surface of our adjacent seas is changing with the oil of Diesel engines and exhaust gases of......

We Know Next To Nothing About The Chariot Of Basil

Valentine, the Spagyric Art, the Grand Magisterium, the Chain of Hermes, the Myth of Flamel, and so on, but we could learn all about these strange subjects and many others by......

The Competition

The Editor offers a prize of 4:5 for a suggestion for a new competition. Tlima: is one thing in particular on wind) we should like to know our readers' opinion. We have tried in......

Books Recommended

LITERATURE.-Venus and Anchises and other Poems. By Phineas Fletcher. (Oxford University Press. 10s. 6d.) --The Litera r y Landmarks of Devon and Cornwall. By R. Thurston......

Recreations Of London

Wednesday, July 28th, at 5 p.m. Miss Ruth Draper will give a Farewell Performance of her original Character Sketches in aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund, at the Ambassadors'......