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So Much Has Been Written Of The Renaissance That We

wondered whether the Medici Society were filling a want in publishing Stories of the Artists : the Florentine School, by Miss Margaret Leicester-Warren (3s.). But after reading......

The Story Of St. James's Palace, By Bruce Graeme...

24s.), is designed to tell Londoners rind others more about one of the most famous of London buildings. It is therefore written in a popular style, and quotations are chosen for......

As An Old Member Of The Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Mr. W. F. Tyler has had some strange experiences, and his breezy narrative, Pulling Strings in China (Constable, 15s.),is well worth reading. He volunteered for the Chinese Navy......

It Is The Section Of The Film Finds Its Tongue

(Putnam, 10s. 6d.) devoted to the scientific invention and experiment in the synchronization of sound which will interest the English public most. The film found its tongue with......

Essex Has Been Much Under-rated By Many People Who, Deterred

by the bad approach through the eastern suburbs of London, have never troubled to explore it 1 But the love of Essex, to those who know it intimately, amounts, in the words of......

It Is Well Known That Belgium And Holland Have Since

the War been negotiating for a new waterways treaty to replace the waterways clauses of the Treaty of 1839 which are no longer fully applicable to modern conditions. The......

The Life Of The French Poet, Gerard De Nerval, Founder

of the Symbolist Movement, was part dream, part tragedy. In his Voyages en Orient he showed himself capable of observa- tion • and from this point of view his book is a valuable......

All Who Know The Morte D'arthur Will Be Grateful To

Mr. Eugene Vinaver for his scholarly and interesting book on Malory (Clarendon Press, 15s.). For he not only puts together all that is known about Sir Thomas Malory but also......

Mr. Peter Quennell, In His New Critical Volume,...

the Symbolists (Chatto and Windus. - 7s. 6d.), writes in an artificial and clumsy style ; not beyond suspicion of " Came- the-Dawnishness." It is none the less a valuable series......

In Memories Of My Life, By Edward Westermarck (george Allen

and Unwin, 16s.), Professor Westermarck has given us an historical document as well as the story of a life. From the beginning his scientific and philosophical studies have been......