28 OCTOBER 1922, page 24

Some Books Of The Week

• (Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subscolent review.) THE WAR SERVICE OF THE 1/4 ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT. By C. R. M. F. Cruttwell. (Oxford : Blackwell.......

Other Novels.—the Terror By Night. By George W. Gough....

7s. 6d.)—A good example of the period novel with no pretensions beyond amusement. What period exactly it belongs to would be difficult to say, but in the chronology of Romance......

General Astronomy. By H. Spencer Jones. (arnold. 21s....

popular treatise on astronomy is required every few years, and no one is better qualified than Mr. Spencer Jones to carry on the apostolic succession of Herschel and Newcomb. He......

Poets And Poetry.

MR. W. H. DAVIES.* SINCE Rhyl is called the Venice of Wales, since M. Maeterlinck is called the Belgian Shakespeare, since, in fact, this form of the comparative method of......