29 JANUARY 1927, page 18

The Author Of A Guide To Library Inforniationan Ineoa...

little 3d. pamphlet, prepared under the auspices of a Carnegie Fund and obtainable from 3 . Endsleigh Street, W.C. 1- while stating that method in research " cannot be taught,......

Nvhat Is The Vis Medieatrix Naturae ? Perhaps We Shall

never know, unless we solve the secrets of life itself. But Dr. Saleeby, whose third edition of Sunlight and health (Nisbet, 5s.) is just out, gives us some illuminating......

Messrs. Harrap Have Published A Very Attractive Edition...

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with illustrations by Willy Pogany. The price is 12s. 6d., and it would make a charming present.......

The International Review Of Missions (from Edinburgh...

at 3s.) is an interesting quarterly with a wider outlook than some missionary magazines. Dr. Mott's article on " Trends in the Orient To-Day " is worthy of note,,as is al so a......

This Week's Books

SIR ARTHUR KEITH, in Nature fur January 15th, reviews the Wells-Belloc controversy from the scientific standpoint and demolishes Mr. Belloc so completely that one wonders......

There Is A Curious Story In The Fifty-sixth Report Of

the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint of a pro. vincial mayor who bargained for a medal to be struck for his town, found the cost too high and had an inferior......

During The Present Month The Books Most In Demand At

The Times Book Club have been : Ficriorr : Master of the Microbe, by R. W. Service ; The Traitor's Gate, by Edgar Wallace ; Skin Deep, by 'Naomi Royde-Smith ; Dark Fire, by......

We Have Received Eight Volumes Of Messrs. Dent's " King's

Treasury " series : Junior Modern Essays, For Repetition, English Lyrical Verse, The Whaling Story (from Moby Dick), She Stoops to Conquer, and King Lear, at ls. 4d. each ; and......

Miss Cecilia Hill Has Written, - And Messks. Methuen Have...

an excellent little Wok in their' Travel - aeries called Fifty Miles Round Paris (Os.). We may daily with Josephine at Malamison or Marie -Antoinette at the Petit Trianon, we......

The Latest Of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner's " To-

day and To-morrow " series are the Dance of cirri, or Life's Unity and Rhythm, by " Collum " (whose identity seems but thinly veiled) and. Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing......

Time Studio, Ltd., Have Issued The First Number Of Famous

Sporting Prints, containing eight coloured reproductions of hunting scenes. The acquatints after Pollard, Sir John Dean Paul and others are excellent. A robust picture entitled......

A Competition

OUR next competition, to the winner of which the Editor .offers a £5 prize., is a very simple one and will lie :judge(' strictly by popular Vote. We ask our readers to give us......