Holiday Heading
WE have been asked to make some suggestions for holiday reading and do so on the understanding that - nothing but personal taste can be a guide. The files of the Spectator will......
This Week's Books
PROFESSOR FRANCESCO TomassErri has just published in Italian the fourth volume of the Roman Campagna. His distinguished father published the first two volumes in 1910 and the......
We See By The Illustrations In Stanley Baldwin : A
Biographical Character Sketch, by Adam Gowan Whyte (thapman and Hall, 5s.), that the present Prime Minister, in velveteens at the age of seven, was a very attractive little boy.......
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Messrs., Frederick. Warne_ send Us a. faesimile of-the Non- sense Alphabet, drawn, and. composed by Edward Lear about the year 1849. The edition - of 1,000 copies has already......
In A Recent Review Of Mr. Mark Sullivan's Our Times
we did not bring out the fact that this is only the first of a series of four volumes. The next will be published in the autumn and we look forward to reading more of this......
The Oxford University Press Send Us The Annual Italian
Lecture on The Development of Political Ideas in Italy in the Nineteenth Century given before the British Academy by Commendatore Luigi Villari : a brilliant historical......
Prophecy Without Pains
IT was Blake's professed purpose to achieve the " intire abrogation of Experimental Theory." Science was. making the rainbow cold and dry for him, as it made it for Keats: He......
The Ex-crown Prince Of Germany Publishes I Seek The Truth
(Faber and Gwyer, 21s.) frith a frontispiece of himself. We wonder how many people are now interested in the origins of the War as seen by the ex-Prince William. * * *......
A New Competition
The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the seven greatest • • Victorians. - • - Fon the pinposes of the competition, we confine the word Victorians ' the _British......
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