There Is Picturesque Material In The Life Of Henry Mordaunt,
second Earl of Peterborough, who somehow captured Barcelona in 1705. But it cannot be said that General Ballard has made much of his opportunity in The Great Earl of......
There Is Much Treasure To Be Found In Mr. Edmund
Pearson's Omer Books (Constable, 15s.). Perhaps . the most notable discovery which Mr. Pearson made as a librarian was Mr. Edwin H. Tenny of Tennessee, the most astonishing......
Mr. Noel Buxton Is A Much Travelled Politician Or A
very political traveller, and in the charming little volume of Travels and Reflections (Allen and Unwin, 10s.) both his main interests in life are represented. Most of the ten......
." Saga " Ii A Yague Term . To Most
readers. it suggests, _ _ . vividly; .enough, talea. of 'Vildng savagery and heroism.- But . . . few of irs could Say; exactly; at - What period and in what cir- cumstances this......
The Competition
THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best definitions of humour and wit, with an example of each. The Competition will close on Friday, November 22nd.......
The Fellowship Of Freedom And Reform Is The Somewhat...
title of a body partly supported by the Licensed Trade who are engaged on the commendable enterprise of im- proving our public-houses. Their pamphlet, The Improved Publie House,......
Some Books Of The Week
}tow - "just a sulky, quiet, feckless sort of boy" became the greatest of our explorers is described by Dr. R. J. Campbell in his biography Livingstone (Berm, 21s.). - Dr.......
The Lively Interest No Taken In The Saints And - Mystics
of seventeenth-century France is probably due, in. part to the writings of the Abbe Bremond ; and of these saints, Francis de Sales, with his unfailing charm of _manner, his -......
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