29 NOVEMBER 1930, page 34

Mr. Aldington In Two Stories (elkin Mathews And Marrot. 7s.

6d.) tells of a soldier who fell in love with a lady of easy virtue while on leave from France, and overstayed his leave, so that he became a deserter and was shot ; and of the......

We May Always Look Both For Interest And Information From

Mr. Owen Rutter, and we are not disappointed in The Pirate Wind (Hutchinson 12s. 6d.). Not only has Mr. Rutter given us of his unrivalled experience, but he has supplemented......

The Fourth Centenary Of Wolsey's Death, Already Com-...

Professor Pollard's masterly memoir, has now led to the republication of George Cavendish's Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey in a superb quarto, printed at the Alcuin Press of......

Finance—public & Private

A Remarkable Book* *Account Rendered, by Ernest J. P. Benn. (Benn. Cs. net.) I SHOULD be inclined to regard the book which has been published during the past week entitled......

The Appearance Of Mr. J. G. Barnece. Life And Complete

Works of Michael Bruce (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 38. Ild.)• indicates that there is still a public in Scotland, and perhaps . elsewhere, to appreciate the tender, sentimental......

The Picturesque Career Of Gustavus Adolphus, The Northern...

evidently interested Sir George MacMunn and led him to write a pleasant book (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.). But Sir George has no new light to throw on the "Protestant hero" and......

What May Be 'described As The 'intellectual Background Of...

Tudor voyages of discovery is clearly sketched for the first time by Professor E. G. R. Taylor in his able mono- graph on Tudor Geography (Methuen, 151.). Just as Columbus's......

In Our Issue Of November 8th We Published A Short

notice of The Annual Register. We referred to the book as The Annual Register for 1930 : it should have been The Annual Register for 1929.......