6 DECEMBER 1924, page 24

Christmas Books For The Nursery *

I SUPPOSE that most people assume that " nursery classics " are classics only in the loose sense in which the word is often used in English, when it hardly means more than " old......

Tuts Is An Excellent And Exhaustive Account Of The Develop-

ment of the locomotive ; it is more profusely illustrated than any book of the kind we remember seeing. It is perhaps rather too full of detail to make exciting reading. Mr.......

Fiction

WICKEDNESS AND HORROR THE main road to Cold Harbour ran blank up against a hedge of holly, so dense and deep that nothing further could be seen. You turned to the left (surely......

Notable Books

TEE Daily Mail Year Book is as useful as ever. Nowhere is so much information packed in so small a compass. The bio- graphies are excellent and well selected, and the......