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.1 Manual Of Hygiene, By Sir William H. Hamer And

C. W. Hutt (Methuen), is an important and exhaustive work, It will be useful to all who arc interested in public health.......

" Low And Dispirited Murmurings " Would Pass We Ll For A

description of several of Mr. T. S. Eliot's Poems, 1909-1925 (Faber and Gwyer). He is so considerable a poet, and his influence upon young writers is so great, that we grow......

Messrs. Edward Arnold Publish In A Large And Most...

volume the account Of The Fight for Everest, 1924. The book is edited by Lieut.-Colonel B. F. Norton, and written by the editor and other members of the expedition. A p . " * *......

This Week's Books

FOR ' , filling gaps in the biography of Edgar Allan Poe, the collection of his Letters Till Now Unpublished (Lippincott) made by Mary Newton Stallard are invaluable ; but it is......

Mr. Edmund Blunden Has Collected Most Of The Verses He

has written since 1921, and the volume is published as English Poems (It. Cobden-Sanderson). They make a very good showing, and fill some hundred and twenty pages ; yet, as Mr.......

News Of The . Competitions

The Editor has - oTered two prizes, the first - for an inscription for a sundial in verse or prose, the second for an epigram on woman in four lines of verse. The awards wit! be......