The Influence Of Great Men In After Ages Is A

subject of great interest. In The Mantle of Caesar, by Friedrich Gundolf, translated by J. W. Hartmann (Grant Richards and H. Toulmin, 15s.) we have a learned and engaging study......

A New Competition In His Country Life Article Of November

30th, SIR W. BEAcrt TriosiAs suggested that "what we want is really some little rhyme that will be the motto of the tidiers." We, therefore, offer a prize of five guineas for......

Some Books Of The Week

THERE possibly was a time when, for the anthropologist, culture was "essentially something static," but that time has long since passed away. If there is one thing which......

Although Sir Jagadis Bose Has Nothing Of Startling...

offer to the general reader in his new volume of researches into plant-physiology—Growth and Tropic Movement of Plants (Longmans, 21s.)—he has made an important scientific......

Those Who Would Understand China May Be Commended To Dr.

Richard Wilhelm's Short History of Chinese Civilization, admirably translated by Miss Joan Joshua, with an intro- duction by Dr. Lionel Giles (Harrap, 12s. 6d.). Dr. Wilhelm......

A Hundred Years Ago There Was No Need To Be

puzzled in decid- ing on a Christmas or New Year present. Keepsakes and Remem- brancers and Friendship's Offerings appeared in timely season and in prodigious numbers. The most......

As A Spirited Attack Upon The Excesses Of French Writers,

such as Henri de Montherlant, Barres and Gauthier, who have found in Spain precisely the illusions which they first took there themselves, Mr. Mario Praz's Unromantic Spain......

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We Congratulate The Scottish Motor Traction Company On...

and, enthusiasm in publishing a new and enlarged form of the S. M. T. Magazine and, above all, on the support which the editor intends to give to all movements having at heart......