5 AUGUST 1938, page 24

Many Words

Tufts book is a tiresome and rambling attempt at a biographical study. It fills 584 pages ; at least two-thirds of them are irrelevant to the subject. There is no index (and,......

Gilbert White Of All English Authors, Gilbert White Would...

been most astounded, I think, by posterity's verdict upon him, not by the prodigious mass of opinion about him, the hundred and more editions of him on the shelves of the......

Time To Spare

The Problem of Leisure. By H. W. Durant. (Routledge. los. 6d.) THE right use of leisure forms a problem which has lately much occupied the public attention and been brought to......