Miss Trevelyan's Newdigate Prize Poem, Julia (blackwell,...
the body of Julia, daughter of Claudius, a beautiful girl of fifteen, was discovered in the fifteenth century by some workmen digging on the Appian Way. Pilgrims came from over......
That Maceration Is Not Confined To The Monks Of Mediaeval
times is one of the interesting points in Dom Louis Gougaud's Devotional and Ascetic Practices of the Middle Ages (Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 5s.), for he cites the instance......
Senorita Lili De Alvarez Was Probably The Third Best Woman
lawn tennis player in the world until recently, when she was defeated by the young South African " star." And it is still safe to say that there is no more exquisite figure on......
Mr. Dorsey's New Book, The Nature Of Man, Is Perhaps
something of a disappointment, although the amount of information he has compressed into a hundred pages would suffice to enable us to recommend the book, if only as a tour de......
This Week's Books
MESSRS. Joni.; MURRAY send us Thoughts on the Drink Question, by " An Ordinary Man " (price ls.), which have already appeared in our columns, and therefore need no further com-......
The Vehement Colours Of The Jacket Of Sutter's Gold,...
from the French of M. Blaise Cendrars by Henry Stuart Longan (Heinemann, Ss. 6d.), hit us—they are meant to do so- –as shrewd a blow mentally as do the wood-blocks in colour,......
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We are much impressed by the little sixpenny pamphlet, Natural Science in Adult Education, which the Stationery Office has just issued. It is a report by the very competent......
In A Country Of Magnificent Distances (canada Is As Large
as Europe), when a regiment's members must of necessity be widely scattered, no better means can be found of maintaining esprit de corps than putting its history into a book.......
Competitions
Tim competition for the best philosophy of life written on the back of a postcard, which closed yesterday, k" elicited an enormous response. The name of the winner 01 the prize......
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