Two Years Ago, Mr. W. R. Calvert, In The Secret
of the Wild, gave us a particularly charming blend of autobiography and Nature study. The book dealt with the Lake District, and was aptly described by one critic as a prose......
Some Books Of The Week
THE growth of a serious interest in the history of the British Empire is much to be commended. The Royal Empire Society has done a great deal to further the movement by endowing......
Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Adventurous Journey (first Published...
to us now in a cheaper edition {Butterworth, 3s. 6d.). It is good value with its excellent illustrations and vivid accounts of adventures in Russia and China. Mrs. Tweedie does......
Mr. Frank Swoffer's Learning To Fly (pitman's, 7s. 6d.) Is
easily the best book on the subject up to date. Indeed, we can say with confidence that it is the only book that deals methodically and simply with all the problems that......
Modern Historians Like M. Charles Diehl, The Late...
M. Schiumberger and others have long ago shown that the ordinary view. of the Byzantine Empire as a - Miserable failure is both unjust and untrue. Mr. Robert Byron, whose......
A Highly Coloured Narrative Of Adventure Among The Semang...
will appeal to readers who favour the personal touch and an anecdotal style. Among the Forest Dwarfs of Malaya (Hutchinson, 21s.) is certainly not dull, and Herr Schebesta......
The Competition
TnE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves " in the experience of coin: petitors or their friends. Stories shoold be true,......
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