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Ar About Engines, By Edward Cressy (cassell And Co., Oa

net), is a readable book, which begins with the history and development of the steam engine, and purses on to turbines, gas and oil engines, the petrol motor and the locomotive,......

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CINEMA PLAYS. Cinema Plays. By Eustace Hide Ball. (Stanley Paul and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—Any one whose ambition it is to write a cinema play cannot do better titan study Mr. Ball's......

Annuals. — The Boy's Own Paper In Its Thirty-ninth Volume...

Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, which is nearly as old (R.T.S., Is. Rd. net each), may once more be commended as attractive and wholesome reading for young people. The......

Another Very Attractive Book Is Mr. A. W. Pollard's...

of Malory, The Romance of King Arthur (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6{1. net), with many clever illustrations in colour and in black- and-white by Mr. Arthur Beckham. Mr. Pollard......

The Life Of The Caterpillar, By J. Henri Fabre, Translated

by A. Teixeira de Mattes (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s. net), is the sixth volume in English of the great French entomologist's writings, and is as interesting as any of the others.......

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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Sin Hmenv NEWHOLT has written another excellent book for boys —and for their sisters too—called The Book of the Happy Warrior (Longmana and Co., 6s. net). He......

The Boy's Book Of Buccaneers, By Eric Wood (cassell And

Co., Is. Rd. net), has a taking title, mut proves to he a we]]-written collection of episodes familiar to the readers of Esquemeling. Sir Henry Morgan is given his due......

The Student's Guide..

" THIS book sets forth from the author's wide experience with students of to-day the practical means of making the years of study pay dividends in spiritual and mental mastery."......