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Dean Inge Says In The Brief Autobiographical Notes...

his new volume of reprinted essays, Assessments and Anticipations (Cassell, 7s. 6d.),that Mr. Asquith in appointing him 'to the Deanery of St. Paul's in 1911, expressed the hope......

Some Books Of The Week

IN undertaking to translate Du Dandysme et de George Brummell, by Barbey D'Aurevilly (Peter Davies, 42s.), Mr. D. B. Wyndham Lewis set himself a peculiarly difficult task—so......

Mr. Bruce-graeme, In The Story Of Buckingham Palace...

tells us its history from the day when it was a silkworm farm to the day when it is the first house in the. land. The book is written in a delightful and readable style, and has......

Their Annual Battle Of Wits Last Autumn, The, Public Learned

with interest that the great co-operative societies had no small part of the milk business. Many people began to wonder whether the co-operative movement could not do more for......

Mr. Philip Norman Is The Leading Expert In London Topo-

graphy and archaeology, and known to some as the Chronicler of the West Kent Cricket Club. Now, as one of the first Ramblers, he has written an account of the origin and early......

• Most Of The Poems In In A Green Shade,

by George Montagu, Earl" of Sandwich (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 5s.), are pleasantly and refreshingly, amidst the cacophonic screechings of numerous very free versifiers, in......

The Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best answer in three hundred words to the question, " Why I shall or shall not travel by the Channel Tunnel ? "—if and when it......

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