30 APRIL 1927, page 17

Honesty And Integrity Are Still The National Character-...

Mr. Philip Sulky in The New Income Tax Guide (Nelson, 2s.), and in this vexed and vexing matter what a taxpayer needs to bring his national and neighbourly duty clearly before......

The Bishop Of Gloucester's Charge To His Clergy Relative To

The New Prayer Book (Murray, 2s. 6d.) should be read by all English Christians and especially by those of the Church of England who doubt the wisdom of the changes proposed.......

It Is A Puzzle To Know Why The Publishers Of

the "The English Library" (which we note is to contain The Memoirs of Letitia Pilkin g ton by our contributor, Miss Iris Barry) should consider it worth while to reprint......

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Mr. Ernest Thesiger's autobiography is far better than the average volume of stage reminiscences. He calls it Practically True (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) and infuses it with that......

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Science and Human Progress (Allen and Unwin, 48. 6(1.) consists of the lectures delivered in 1926 by Sir Oliver Lodge for the Halley Stewart Trust. They merit and will un-......

This Week's Books

Diniso the present month the books most in demand at tile Times Book Club have been :—Ficrrost. —The Old Countess, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick ; Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis;......

The Deeply Interesting Trade Survey Which Is Published...

the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (36 Kingsway, 5s.) is a publication we would commend most heartily to everyone concerned in industry or finance. The......

Two Books Of Negro Music Recently Received Are The Second

nook of Negro Spirituals edited with an introduction by Mr. J. Johnson (Chapman and Hall, $3 50 cents) and Singing Soldiers, by Mr. J. J. Niles (Scribners. 10s. 6d.). Mr. Niles......

The New Competition

Tarn editor offers a prize of a for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come......