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Lady Sybil Lubbock's Account Of .a Winter Journey On Ancient

Ways in Egypt and the Holy Land (Cape, 7s. 6d.) contains some admirable bit& of superficial description. The " fields the Blessed Feet have.trod" will not be set before the......

Some Books

of the Week A Catholic View of Holism, by Monsignor Kolbe (Mac- millan, .2s. 6c1.), is by a distinguished South African scholar and has an intrinsic interest apart from its......

The Author Of America's Ambassadors To France, 1777 To 1927

(John Murray, 21s.), has put students of the English- speaking world in his debt by publishing so admirable an account of Franco-American diplomatic relations. This book is a......

It Would Ill Become The Paper For Which Meredith Townsend

worked • so long to neglect The Papers of an Oxford Man (Ingpen and Grant, 6s.), which is a tribute paid by fellow journalists to the work of a journalist whose career lay......

The Merest " Cross" Of The Scots Was Commonly Not

a cross at all, but a slender tapering shaft of stone mounted on steps or some -sort of platform. It was the place whence the " voice of Scotland's law was sent in glorious......

• The Flashy Tone Of Some Of Mr. Weigall's Chapter-headings

in Flights into Antiquity (Hutchinson, 18s.) does not attract us. " A Little Scandal about Julius Caesar," " The Lady whom Athens did not Receive " (Aspasia, of Course), " The......

Messrs. Kipling, Galsworthy, Bernata Shaw And Others` Ate...

dead Tor a dhcat in Scrutinies, a foolish sYni- Posium Wishart, 'Ts. 6d.). Mr. Edgell Rickword, with his lugty bravoS (Messrs. Garman, McGreevy,'Holnis; etc.); have annihi-......