26 APRIL 1924, page 24

Of All Studies There Is None More Fascinating And More

exasper- ating than Political gcience. If it confines itself to abstrac- tions it often becomes ludicrous ; if it strives to adapt itself to practical affairs and contemporary......

Shorter Notices.

STUDIES IN EVOLUTION AND EUGENICS. By S. J. Holmes, Ph.D. (George Routledge and Sons. 12e. 6d. net.) Professor Holmes deals with the subject of eugenics and evolution in a......

Behind And Before. By W. E. Hoitland. (cambridge...

6s. net.) An adequate review of this short book would take several whole numbers of the Spectator, including its advertisement space. The reader must not overlook the fact that......

The Protection Of Our English Churches Report For 1923 Of

the Central Committee for the Protection of Churches. (Oxford University Press, 1923. 2s.) The subject with which this Report, which is published with " the warmest approval and......

Miss Edna Ferber Is Less Well Known To English Readers

than she deserves to be. Her new novel, So Big, while not .equalling in charm her previous book on the earliest years of Chicago, yet gives a wonderful picture of the truck......

A Short History Of American Literature. Edited By W. P.

Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman The reading of these two volumes would give anyone a good basis from which to study modern American literature. The one will - describe to......