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Mr. Philip Carr Has Compiled A Most Useful-reference-book...

names, the works and notes on French artists, writers, and scientists, under the title of Annuaire Orange, 1931. This book can be obtained from 29 bis, Rue de Montevideo, Paris......

Smaranda, By The Late Lord Thomson Of Cardington, When It

was published first in 1926, gave promise of a new writer who should rank with the most brilliant of to-day. The fulfilment of that promise has been cut short, and the intro-......

The Rev. Desmond Morse-boycott, The Author Of Ten Years In

the London Slums, continues his researches in the under- world. All sorts and conditions of moral waifs and strays come under notice in We Do See Life (Skeffington, 18s.), with......

Simplicity And Conciseness Are Combined In A Remarkable...

picturesqueness of style in Mr. Laurence Binyon's Landscape in English Art and Poetry -(Cobden- Sanderson, 7s. 6d.). In this volume, enriched with many reproductions from our......

* * * * If The Second And Third Volumes

of the Shakespeare Head Edition of Chapman's Homer (Basil Blackwell, five volumes, £3 3s. each) can now be given but brief notice it is because the splendour and, even more, the......

A Tenement In Soho, By George Thomas, With An Intro-

duction by John Oxenham (Cape, 7s. 6d.) is the diary of a young man hopelessly crippled with progressive muscular atrophy, a disease from which his mother, sister and brother......

During The Past Month The 1)ooks Most In Demand At

The Times Book Club have been , . Nos-Ficriori.—The World Crisis : The Eastern Front, icy the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill-;- Lord -Resebery, -by the Marquess of Crewe ; Ellen......