31 JANUARY 1920, page 19

Some Books Of The Week.

!Notice in this column does not necessarily prided. tubsnusfat miss./ A weighty and searching criticism of Mr. Montagu's India Act appears in the Church Quarterly Review for......

Mr. Sheppard, The Energetic Vicar Of St....

his parish magazine into a Monthly Review (6d. net), the January issue of which is a spirited and enter- taining production. General Maurice writes on the League of Nations and......

Sir George Newman In A Preface To The Medical Supplement

of the forty-eighth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1918-19 (Cmd. 462, Is. 3d. net), recalls the history of the series of Medical Reports begun by the late Sir John......

The Acceptance Of The Welsh Church Temporalities Act,...

the Bishop of St. Davids. (S.P.C.K. Is. net.)—This pamphlet, written for the diocese of St. Davide, gives a lucid account of the financial position of the Welsh Church and of......

A Thin Ghost And Others. By M. R. James. (edward

Arnold. 4s. 6d.)—Some seventy years ago there lived in London a young brother and sister who christened their favourite book of ghost stories Sights and Frights. The "thin......

Gild Socialists And Others Who Have Formed A False...

of the mediaeval craft gilds and base fantastic theories upon them should read a short article on the subject by Miss Eileen Power in History, the organ of the Historical......

Fiction.

STORM IN A TEACUP.* Tiaz scene of Mr. Eden Phillpotte's new story is laid in Devon- shire. But readers who are familiar with the tragic atne - phere which invests so many of his......

Nursairy Rimes.*

PARODIES of nursery rhymes are as a rule detestable. They are generally sophisticated, they are apt to rely for effect upon a double meaning, and they almost always miss the......