2 APRIL 1927, page 20

During The Past Month The Books Most In Demand At

the Times Book Club have been :— Fier - rms.—The Case of Bevan Yorke, by W. B. Maxwell ; Pilgrims, by Ethel Mannin ; Harvey Garrard's Crime, by E. Phillips Oppenheim ; Twelve......

Two Recent Books Of Philosophic Speculation Are Professor...

volume of Indian Philosophy (George Allen and Unwin, 25s.), which gives in lucid outline the six chief Brahmanical systems : the Nyaya and the Vaisesika, analysing the world of......

That Grave-eyed, Remarkable Young Brahmin, Who Has Had "...

" thrust upon him by the section of the 'Theo- sophical Society who believe that he is the coming Messiah— Mr. Khrishnamurti—has published a series of addresses he recently......

Messrs. Williams And Norgate Issue Mr. E. T. Brown's Motors

and Motoring in their Home University Library (2s.). Mr. Brown may be correct from the standpoint of engineer when he says that a car should be declutched before the brake is......

This Week's Books

SUPERLATIVES should not be in the stock-in-trade of the re- viewer, but they too often are. However, although enthusiasm for the good books sent to us must be tempered with......

In A Note To Mr. Baldwin's Appeal (now Published By

the Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi) for the Preserva- tion of Ancient Cottages, Mr. Thomas Hardy suggests that the construction of old cottages should be imitated......

Canon Alexander Has Made An Interesting Book Out Of Material

which however important nationally is unpromising from a literary point of view. If St. Paul's crashed down on its rubble piers and into Cannon Street, the disaster would......

Treacle Posset, Ale Flip, Grape-fruit " Kola " And All

sorts of other delicious drinks are given in Miss Jack's Hundred Drinks and Cups (Country Life. is.). Other little volumes in the same series, also by Miss Jack, are Hundred......

The First Number Of The Kipling Journal, Published For...

of the Kipling Society by Mr. J. H. C. Brooking (The Milestone, Bath Road, Slough) has reached us. There is an extract of a schoolboy poem by the Master, and some amusing......

The New Competition All Our Readers Have Doubtless Read...

Fair. We offer in our New Competition a prize of £5 for the best pub- lisher's notice, such as is generally printed on the wrapper of a book, describing Vanity Fair in not more......

The Medici Society Send Us A Collection Of Their Easter

cards ; they are charming and cheap, costing only 6d. and Is.......

We Regret Having Misspelt Professor D. Fraser-harris's...

recent review of his Nerves (Faber and Gwyer. 3s. 6d.)......