4 APRIL 1931, page 28

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The unparalleled success of the Archbishop of York's recent Oxford mission gives a certain appositeness to the publication of Christ in University Life (Hodder and Stoughton,......

Der Staat Seid Ihr (reckendorf Verlag, Berlin, 80 Pf E„...

Monday), or, in English, Ye are the State, is the title of a new political weekly on entirely novel lines which appeared in Berlin this month, and of which great thing ' are......

Those Who Are Fairly Well Acquainted With The Stuart Period

will find The English Revolution, by Mr. I. Deane Jones (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.), both stimulating and suggestive. It is a typical product of the Oxford historical school, in -......

Mr. Bertram Thomas Has Achieved Fame By His Daring Journeys

in South-East Arabia, including the first crossing of the great desert known as the " Empty Quarter." He is, too, an excellent writer, and no one who cares for true adventure......

The Superbly Got-up. The Pegasus Book (constable, 23s.)....

W. E. Lyon edits, is horse-history for the year that is gone. Horse-history and also brief notes on such of the human race, at home and abroad, as ride or - drive, hunt or show,......

Mr. J. R. -bellerby, Who Has Shown In Earlier Books

an unusually dispassionate temper in dealing with economic questions ; attempts in A Contributive Society (Education " Services, 7s. 6d.) not merely to state the principles......

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It is not given to many Englishmen to understand the French spirit so intimately and sympathetically as does Mr. E. V. Lucas. To his previous writings on France he has now added......