5 MARCH 1932, page 35

Three Lives

THERE are various reasons why People read biographies— apart from the universal reasons for reading at all—which veer between the desire to grasp life and the desire to escape......

Modern Scotland

A Scotsman's Heritage. By the Hake of Athol' and others. (Alexander Maelehose and Co. 7s. 6d.) IT was a happy thought to get a number of representative . Scotsmen to trace the......

Strange Prisons

Harpoon. By Henry Ferguson. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) SIBERIA was perhaps the strangest prison ever irwented by the ingenuity of rulers. M. Zenzinov was sent there three times by the......