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We Confess To An Initial Prejudice On Opening Nights In

Mr.- Horace -Wyndham (The Bodley Head, •15s.), 1 :7 we openait - alili - e charming illustration bs Miss Dorothea ' I t. George of the now defunct Rif Kat Club, entitled "high •......

Wit M Mr. Edward Carpenter Takes Part In A Discussion

about Oriental and Western philosophy we cannot choose - but hear. - We owe him a debt Of gratittide for givInk us the extracts from private letters of the late Mr. P.......

The First Edition Society Has Published A Very Attractive...

of Gulliver's Trove/s, with a scholarly introduction, bibliography and notes by Mr. Harold Williams. The immortal Gulliver's comment on the Yahoos, that they are the only......

The 1927 Editioh Of The Photographic Almanac Is Out...

2s.), and it will be of interest to amateur photographers, especially the section on reflex cameras. There is no doubt that they are the most " foolproof" instru- ments for......

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Miss . Constance Kent, who murdered a baby, carried it • carefully downstairs on one arm and paused in the drawing- room to put on her goloshes. Then she went to a closet and......

- How I Cured Myself By Pasting Is A Very

remarkable little book by the Reverend Walter Wynne (Rider, is.) which should be widely read: There is a certain amount of diver- gence of medical opinion with regard to fasting......

The Emergence Of The Daily Mail That Sprang From The

ashes of a staider journalism, fully panoplied with a circulation of 60,000 on the • day of its birth, the renaissance of the Times, the advent of the picture paper, the strange......

Ive Welcome The Twentynew Volumes Of The Everyman Series...

are catalogued in °Ur Library List this week. This valuable series is one of the pioneers of a comprehensive scale of cheap well-Printed editions of classic and contemporary......

This Week's Books Tin: Current- Issue Of Headway, The...

,Organ Of the League of Nations-Union .(price 3d.); has a special 'article: and an editorial on advertising the League, both written, in much the spirit......

Popular Dog Keeping (bazaar, Exchange And Mart, 2s.) A...

little book, but why, oh why, is there not some Protest against the constant chaining of the friend of man ? No doubt a dog must be on a chain or lead sometimes, but the cruelty......

The New Competition

wE offer two prizes in our New Competition of 12 10s. each, one for men and one for women. Our readers are asked to imagine that they can only select their future husband or......

' Canada To-day, 1927 (26 Cockspur Street, 2s. Gd.), Is

full, as usual, of bright pictures and information. " Looking after Women Immigrants" is an especially valuable feature, as is "New Settler's Problems."......