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Porcelain: The Soul Of Ireland. By John Mackay. (berm. 10s.

6d.)—In a series of essays, character- istically Irish in that an outward merriment masks an under- lying melancholy, Mr. Mackay describes his recent progress through Ireland by......

Some Left-handed Marriages. By E. B.

D'Auvergne. Illustrated. (Hutchinson. 18s.) — Mr. D'Auvergne is modest and disarming, for he quite frankly admits that his volume is " not addressed to the serious student." At......

Thomas Love Peacock. By J. B. Priestley. (" English Men

of Letters." Macmillan. 5s.)—Mr. Priestley finds Peacock, the efficient India House official and the perverse and whimsical amateur in literature, " a treacherous subject for......

Insurance

ABOUT BONUSES.—III. WE have dealt with the surplus out of which bonuses are paid, and with two popular methods of distributing the available surplus among the policy holders.......

Historical Biographies : South Africa. (british Empire...

quite admirable little.history of . South Africa—No. in the Empire Series—is published in pamphlet form. To have made so short a book on such a large subject so interesting is......

A Library List

MISCELLANEOUS : The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By William Blake. (Dent. 21s.) The Life of William Blake. By Mona Wilson. (The Nonesuch Press. £2 5s.) The Psalms. Arranged and......