Sir Owen Seaman Has Done A Gentle Deed By Disturbing
the dusty files of Punch which have accumulated during the last twenty-one years, and extracting therefrom those lyrics, written from a "bat's back," which still retain a little......
The Contents Of Mr. Markov's How We Tried To Save
the Tsaritsa (Putnam, 15s.) are singularly at variance with its title. He and his little circle made no real attempt to save their royal mistress (it is interesting to find......
A Foreword By Aloysius Horn And A Preface By Rosita
Forbes leave little for a mere reviewer to say about The Fortunate Islands, by Amelia Defries (Cecil Palmer, 7s. 6d.). What remains to be said after Mr. Horn has exclaimed :......
However Eminent And Vocal, Mayfair Is A Very Small Part
of London, and even Deauville does not loom very large in the scheme of things. If certain men and women of Kenya are Tarred with the Same Brush, by le Comte de Janze......
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A belief in magic is the root of all evil. So at least thinks M. Raoul Allier, whose latest book, Le non-civilise et nous, has been translated by Mr. Fred Rothwell, under the......
Surely The Public Is By This Time Bored By Reading
about Cora Pearl, Maria Manning and Lola Montes, but Mr. Horace Wyndham by issuing Feminine Frailty (Berm, 18s.) seems to think otherwise. In addition to matter that has been......
Professor Mawer, Who With Professor Stenton Founded The...
Society, and is editing its excellent volumes on the counties, has printed his recent King's College lectures on Problems of Place-name Study (Cambridge University Press, Os.).......
More Books Of The Week (continued From Page 23.) Twentieth
Century Stage Decoration (Knopf, /5 5s.) will serve better than any known to us as a work of reference in regard to the work of the Idealist Theatre—defining that term as the......
Undeniably Clever As Is Mr. Ralph Barton's God's Country...
10s. 6d.) this comic history of the United States by the illustrator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has too strong and bitter a flavour to be to the taste of English readers. A......
Among The Four Or Five Of London's Most Distinguished...
regiments the Artists' Rifles holds a high place. It is therefore fitting that their already high sense of esprit de corps should be still further strengthened by Colonel May's......
General Knowledge Questions
Oust weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to M. J. C. Meiklejohn, 136 Coombe Lane, S.W. 20, for the following :— - Questions......
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