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Mr. Edmund Blunden Contributes To His New Edition Of The

Poems of William Collins (Haslewood Press, 18s.) a clearly written and sympathetic study of his author. He has long felt an intimate in Collins, and he has one or two new facts......

The Prussian King Whom Bismarck Made German Em- Peror Was

not an interesting personage. Item Paul Wiegler has taken pains with his biography of William the First (Allen and Unwin, 21s.), and has tried to enliven it with anecdotes and......

Dr. James Dreyer And Miss Margaret Drummond Have Little That

is new to tell us in The Psychology of the Pre-School Child (Partridge. 6s.). In fact, anyone who went to it as to a parents' guide would probably be disappointed. They do give......

The Many People Who, When Driving Or Walking Through The

countryside, make a practice of inspecting every church, will be delighted with Mr. E. A. Greening Lamborn's excellent little book on The English Parish Church (Clarendon Press,......

T • A Library List Reference Boors :—laws For Printers

and Publishers. By B. M. Cloutman and F. W. Luck. (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 17s. 6d.)—The Annual Charities Register and Digest. (Longmans, Green. 8s. 6d.) The Statesman's......

Now That Grenoble Is A Popular Centre For English Students

and their families, there should be a good many readers for Miss Caroline Walker's attractive and intelligent book on The Dauphiny (Oxford : Blackwell, 7s. 6d.). She sketches......

When Herman Melville (born In 1819) Died In 1891, The

newspapers of his own country of the United States did not know who he was. Better that he had chosen to die this side of the Atlantic, for we in England—many of us—still read......

An Interesting And Attractive Volume Of Photographs,...

Minor Architecture of Suffolk, has been edited by Mr. Dexter Morand (John Tiranti and Co,.17s. 6d.). There is a brief general introduction, followed by a " - synopsis of Suffolk......

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(Continued from page 129.) Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police, by Mr. J. F. Moylan, is one of the Whitehall Series, and as such designed rather to instruct than to amuse.......