The Delectable County Of Sussex Is Treated In The New

volume of the Borzoi County Histories, by Mr. J. H. Ford (Knopf, 4s.). The prehistoric skull found at Piltdown, near Lewes, is the author's starting point for a readable sketch......

Had Lorenzo Da Ponte Lived To-day, Psycho-analysts Might...

him from his persecution-mania, although it is doubtful if he could ever have paid for a course, for he was always hard up, like most artists. But he was born in 1749, and lived......

With Reference To Our Review Of Sir Robert Donald's Book,

The Polish Corridor and the Consequences, on this page last week, we alluded to its propagandist bias " in favour f Poland." This should, of course, have been " in favour of......

Spy And Counter-spy (john Hamilton, 15s.) Is More Than A

collection of spy stories, yet less than a history of espionage. The result is of more interest to the general intelligent reader than either of the alternatives. Mr. R. W.......

It Has Been Said That The One Value Of History

is that it should deal with realities. Dr. H. J. Hewitt enforces that position in his Medieval Cheshire (Manchester University Press, 21s.), the purport of which is further......

When The Late Lord Tennyson Wrote That He : "

Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales." he was perhaps a better prophet than poet. Even......

From The Hirsute Jowl Of Lorenzo The Magnificent To The

smooth cheek of 'a pretty girl who drowned herself in the Seine, and from the nerve-racked profile of Sheridan to the Antiniius-like beauty of Napoleon, a pageant of death masks......

Some Books Of The Week

Tea site of Ur of the Chaldees, Abraham's birthplace, was rediscovered by chance in 1854 and identified from a cylinder of the last Babylonian King, Nabonidus, who about the......

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The Competition

SINCE the planning of holidays does not . seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we suggest for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or......