24 SEPTEMBER 1927, page 20

Greyhound Racing Has Such - A Great Followirik Thivadayie...

is no wonder publishers are kept btisy catering' for - the popular taste. Mr. Hugh Daltiel in The Greyhotindlits Breed- ing, Training and Running (P. S. King, 2s.) gives us an......

Every Chess-player Will Want Mr. Alekhin's My Best Games Of

Chess, 1908-1923 (Bell. 10s. 6d.). Only thirty-five yeas old, he is now a Docteur en droit in Paris and one of the three greatest chess-players in the world. His favourite......

Avec L'oncle Emile A (ravers La France (harrap, 3s. 6d.)

is a new and revised edition of a delightful way of learning French and French geography and politics, and a good deal of other useful information, all in one jolly meal, so to......

4 Little Book _of The League Of Nations, 1620-1927 (p.

S. King, 2s.), appears to have been written primarily foi children, but adults may also learn in these pleasant little essays much about the problems the League' has coped .......

Professor W. Mcdougall, Who Made A Real Contribution To The

cause of peace by his advocacy of an International Air Force for the League of Nations—whether we agree in detail with his scheme or not—now takes the whole of human life for......

General Knowledge Questions

Tim Editor awards the prize of one. guinea offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions and answers to Mrs. H. B. Foote for the following:— Questions on......

Two Quarrels We Have With Mr. Kenneth Hare's Our Cockney

Ancestors (Henn, 15s., illustrated) are that its title is unworthy of its fascinating contents, and that the pub- lishers announce that the days of eld are "- robbed of- every......

Messrs. Chapman And Hall Send Us The First Two Volumes

of a beautiful new edition of The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor (at 30s. a volume), edited with painstaking care by Mr. T. Earle Welby. There will be sixteen volumes,......

This Week's Books

overtly, at all events, a reasonably faithful husband ; and yet one who in writing to an occasional female flame would copy for her love-letters originally addressed to his wife......