Vengeful Gods. By Gertrude Atherton. (murray. 7s. 6d.)—in...
Marriage Mrs. Atherton told the story of Pericles and Aspasia. The present novel deals with the arrogant and stormy career of Alcibiades, the antithesis of Pericles in......
The Watcher In The Wood. By Maurice G. 'kiddy. (mitchinson.
7s. 6d.)--Mr. Kiddy, having given us two excellent " shockers," now partially breaks new ground. We say " partially "heeause he again uses his fertile imagina- tion to make our......
The Journal Of Careers (messrs. Truman And Knightley, 61...
Street, ls.) is a very useful monthly for those of our readers who are looking for suitable careers for their sons 10. What slight deformity was made a fashion by an English ;......
D Iscu Ssed In The Book, Among Them A Defence Of Opera,
musical criti inclined to dispute the value of the musical critic's work ina'jg . the whole gang. :t * * * *......
There Is A Tranquillity In Gilbert White's Life And Outlook!
. that has always had its attraction among the fevers of . zation. Movements and causes left him unconcerned. lie . vegetated in Selborne, like a Chinese sage, with his own......
Anthologies Of Prose Are Becoming A!ni ,st As Numerous As
those - of poetry, and this season Leicestershire will have its own; - for A Fox-Hunting Anthology, compiled by E. 1). Clinking (Cassell, 21s.) has arrived just in time for the......
The Shadow Of Abdul. By H. K. Gordon. (arnold. 7s.
ed.)—"Mr. - Gordon has written another excellent Anglo- Indian novel. The plot, centring around the daughter of an English official, ingeniously, but not extravagantly, links......
M. Levy-bruhl Has Already Added Greatly To Our Knowledge, Of
the primitive mind, and in The " Soul" of the Primitift (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.) he gives us the results of further industrious compilation and co-ordinating insight. His......
Fiction
In War and Peace The Case of Sergeant Grischa is certainly one of the most im- pressive chronicles of the War. Arnold Zweig compels our minds towards the Eastern Front, the......
When One Remembers With What Terrible Rapidity South...
deprived of nearly all her big game, it is dis- quieting to be told by Sir Hubert Wilkins about " the fast- dwindling fauna of Australia." Whatever the causes, whether as in......
General Knowledge Questions
10. What slight deformity was made a fashion by an English ; and &tighten - 3e Vatofaiti.Ciirpenter, V.C., - 11 , .N*.:,. fetiiiiis's the Queen ? - . ' prospects hi the Navy ;......
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