Some Books Of The Week
" Wito will take even a passing interest in such trifles ? " Writes Mr. Lewis May when he comes to the end of The Path Through the Wood (Geoffrey Bles, 7s. 6d.). None of those......
An - Important Phase Of- Our Eighteenth-century • History Is
discussed by an American scholar, Dr. Wellman J. Warner, in . The Wesleyan Movement in the Industrial RevolutiOn (Longmans, 15s.). „He is well informed, and not unfriendly, but......
The Two Friends Who Make The Joyous Pilgrimage, Described By
R. Francis Foster (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 7s. 6d.), are persuaded that the trains, the road traffic, and ribbon development generally have touched only the surface of English......
- How Many People Who Read Mr. Squire's Article In The
Observer on a Sunday say to themselves, " I will cut that out and keep it:" This, alas, is , one of the geod resolutions that nobody carries out ! In these days of small houses......
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The Competition
Tan Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the competitor whose -selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accord& with the majority. verdict. The......
Nobody Who Has Read The Apology—and Everyone Who Can Rise
above cinema captions ought to have read it—can have missed its dramatic quality. Yet, so far as the present reviewer is aware, the drama has in all these centuries not been......
, • Sir Arthur Quiller-couch Is Always A Jolly Companion,
but never more so than when he is pleading a difficult or unpopular cause. He has long been an admirer of T. E. Brown,. the Manx poet, whose centenary has just been celebrated ;......
The Manuscript Of Characters And Observations (john Murray,
10s. 6d.) is of the Eighteenth Century, and bears on the title page the words " A. Pope. Twikeam." The contents are a series of maxims and reflections displaying considerable......
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