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Building Societies Year Book, 1927. Compiled And Edited...

E. Franey, O.B.E. (Reed and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The great building society movement is over a cen- tury old, and is still growing rapidly, but until recently it has had no literature.......

' The Art And Sport Of Alpine Photography. Ily Arthur

Gardner. Illustrated with one hundred and fifty- five • photographs. (Witherby. 21s.)—Mr. Gaidner starts a provocative Jiare when he states that the photographer has t‘ powers......

The Modern Development Of City Govern- Ment In The United

KINGDOM AND THE UMW) STATES. By Ernest S. Griffith. (Oxford University Press. 2 vols. 42s.)—Dr. Griffith's study of municipal administra- tion in Great Britain and America is an......

3 Rupees.)—specialists In Indian History Know That Hangs...

the chief man of business and secretary under Dupleix, the French Governor of Pondicherry, and his suc- cessor, and that he kept a voluminous diary from 1736 to 1761 which is......

Tales From Balzac. (nash And Grayson. 7s. 6d. Net.) —five

hundred and fifty large pages, containing a generous . portion of Balzac's shorter novels, or stories. Balzac is an ocean, and the more of him the better ; but he is hardly for......

Fiction

Dartmoor Novels Widecombe Fair ; The Thief of Virtue ; The Three Brothers ; The River. Widecombe Edition of the Dartmoor Novels and Stories of Eden Phillpotts. (Macmillan. 20......

Answers To Natural • History Questions

1. Daddy r long-legs.2. HUman beings.-3. A salinon whisk has spawned and not yet returned to salt water.----C (b) is correct. Swifts don't perch.-5. Three.--6. (a) White ; (b)......

Faint Amorist. By Elizabeth Sprigge. (knopf. 7s. 6d....

a story of a pair of very modern young people who arrange their affairs so as to endeavour to enjoy a sentimental love affair without running the risk of its turning into a......

Current Literature

MORE PEPYSIANA. By Walter H. Whitear. (Simpkins, 15s.)—For the lovers of Pepys—and they are myriad—this small volume is infinite riches in a little room, for it clears up ,......