26 APRIL 1930, page 20

The Gallimaufry Of Brilliant And High-flavoured Gossip...

of Charles H, entitled the Memoirs of the Comte de Gramma, which Anthony Hamilton wrote, assisted probably by the reminiscences of his brother-in-law, the Comte de Gramont, has......

* * * * An Old Friend Has Reappeared To

us—pretty much as we used to know him, but wearing a few new clothes. Mr. G. M. Trevelyan's Clio, A Muse (Longmans, 7s. 6d.) was first born as long ago as 1913, reborn in 1919......

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. We cannot be grateful enough to John Maplet, " M of Arte and studente of Cambridge," who in 1567 produced a natural history, or to the Hesperides Press for reprinting the......

In His Bluff And Breezy Book, The Roaring Follies (sampson

Low, 12s. 6d.) Captain D. J. Munro, R.N., puts forward a fervent but we fear useless plea (although Lord Jellieoe endorses it in his preface) for entering our merchant seamen as......

- Some Books Of The Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been : FicTrox :—The Woman of Andros, by Thornton Wilder ; The Town of Tombarel, by W. J. Locke ;......

Our Knowledge Of Some Of Shakespeare's Mends And Ac-...

though not of the poet himself, is enlarged by Mr. E. A. B. Barnard's patient study in New Links with Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, '10s. 6d.). From some deeds......

It Is Generally Agreed, Despite Gibbon's Argument To The...

that the patron saint of England was a native of Palestine, and in George of Lydda (Luzac, 12s. 6d.) Sir E. A. Wallis Budge has made a further contribution to the study of the......

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