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These Three Volumes Are The Work Of Margaret George, Who

died at the age of twenty-four in 1922. The volume of poems contains work done between the ages of four and twenty-four. Some of the earliest poems are of extraordinary quality......

The Inconveniences And Disagreeables Of What Mr. Walter...

" the horrid scrape of being born a woman " have never been more wittily pointed out than by Mrs.. Dowdall in her light essays on the subject of that impersonator of all......

The Moon.

We have received the first number of a weekly newspaper for the blind, which is printed in Dr. Moon's embossed type. This type is said to be simpler than that of the Braille......

Finance-public & Private.

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] POLITICS , STRIKES , AND MARKETS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The City is disposed to regard the Foreign Exchanges as constituting a more......

Shorter Notices.

COUNTRY CONVERSATIONS. (John Murray. 3s. 6d. net.) This most amusing little book is far too good for one to believe the publisher's statement that the conversations were taken......

Architectural Education A Century Ago. By A. T. Bolton....

Museum Publication No. 12. ls. net.) Primarily a sketch of Sir John Soane's office from within, and more especially of George Basevi (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Belgrave......

Brighter Intervals : Duly Logged In Prose And Verse. By

Gordon Phillips. (Nisbet. 5s.) Mr. Gordon Phillips is " Lucio " of the Manchester Guardian, from which paper he has collected the majority of these amusing trifles. Every one of......

It Was Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer Who Started The English

Review, and under his editorship it was amazingly good. It is Mr. Ford Madox Ford (the same Mr. Ilueffer) who, now starts a more ambitious magazine. The Transatlantic Review,......