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The Why And The Wherefore Of South African Nationalism In

its Dutch setting is ably defined and illustrated in General Ilertzog by L. E. Neame (Hurst and Blackett, 180. The author, a well-known South African political journalist, has......

Lord Beatty Is Not Yet Sixty ; When Still A

comparatively young man he had reached the highest post in the greatest striking force of the greatest war in history. He owes nothing to his birth, of an honourable but in no......

Mr. George Slocombe, For Many Years The Correspondent Of The

Daily Herald, has written an attractive and discerning book in Paris in Profile (Cayme Press, 12s. 6d.). To write of Paris one should be a poet, an historian and a connoisseur :......

Some Books Of The Week Dur.ng. The Past Month The

books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been Dur.NG. the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been FrerroN :—Red Wagon, by Lady Eleanor Smith......

Like Some Great Gopurant Of Southern India That Mounts...

with tier upon tier of strange sculptures, some graceful, some grotesque, in apparent confusion, yet linked by an underlying plan and symmetry, so the All-India Special Number......

The Competition

Tan Editor of the Spectator offers a prize of £5 5s. for the best County Story. Stories must not exceed two hundred words in length. The Editor reserves the right to publish any......

Mr. Harold Peake, In An Attractive Little Book On The

Flood (Kegan Paul, 5s.), recalls the flood legends preserved by various peoples, notes that the only real parallel to the story in Genesis is the Babylonian tale, and then......

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Com- petition" will be found on pages 539 and 540.)......