Captain J. L. M. Barrett Is The Equitation Instructor At

the R.M.C., Sandhurst, and more than 1,600 young men, many of them destined to become the perfect horsemen of our crack cavalry regiments, have passed through his hands. He is......

Anatole France In 1909 Went On A Lecture Tour To

South America. The subject he proposed was Francois Rabelais. Neither lecturer nor subject, however, were particularly acceptable to the Roman Catholic authorities. " At the......

That Most Accomplished Interpreter, Miss Pitt, Once More...

her fascinated audience the language of the animal world: Toby my Pox Cub (Arrowsmith, 5s.) is a baby from the wild, playful, charming, and illusive. Brought up in the house,......

The Late Colonel Sir John Hall's The Coldstream Guards...

Press, 25s.) brings the histOry of that distinguished regiment from 1885 down to 1914, and contains as its main theme the operations of the 1st and 2nd Battalions during the......

Some Books Of The Week

As the founder of a legal dynasty Lord Chief Baron Pollock deserves to be remembered, and the excellent memoir of him by his grandson, Lord Hanworth (Murray, 10s. 6d.), will be......

It Is Fortunate That Before The Dying Social Customs And

beliefs of rural communities in various parts of the country are , quite dead and lost, some patient and scholarly writ er is usually to be found who is prepared to devote a......

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The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the paragraph of not more than a hundred and fifty words, on any subject in which is hidden the largest number of names of......