6 DECEMBER 1930, page 47

What Distinguishes A Dog From All Other Animals Is His

obvious wish to learn. A spaniel's brown eyes look up at you, plainly and humbly expressing the wish : " if only I could understand." This quality in dogs sets a certain moral......

Gift Books

ACCORDING to Mr. Beaton, all the most admired women of to-day " have certain qualities and attributes in common ; their mouths are not small, but their chins are. They have high......

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Major Radclyffe Dugmore is deservedly famous among big- game hunters and the public at large for his beautiful photo- graphs of wild life ; and he has done more, perhaps, than......

Some Entirely Charming Coloured Pictures Of Game And...

and of deer, by Philip Rickman and Frank Wallace, give grace to the very businesslike and even dogmatic advice set forth by Mr. Pollard in The Gun-room Guide (Eyre and......

The Practical Dog Book (simpkin Marshall, 21s.) Is A...

volume. It is thick and heavy—defects, no doubt, since you cannot put it down ! It is expensive, but no one who ever loved a dog could grudge an effort to hold it or buy it. The......

The Magazines

Is The Nineteenth Century for December the first article, by Mr. Austin Hopkinson, is devoted to an explanation of why Mr. Baldwin is the most trustworthy leader in politics......