There Is Always A Fascination In Turning Over The Pages
of the Daily Mail Year Book;. the information contained in it is so various and often so extraordinarily useful. The Daily Mail Year Book, 1931 (Is.), includes an instructive......
Whisky, By Mr. Aeneas Macdonald (edinburgh: Porpoise...
certainly a distillation of wit that the distillers will not like. However, the general public will, for Mr. Macdonald has something to say, and says it well, in spite of his......
Babel, Or The Past, Present And Future Of Human Speech,
by Sir Richard Paget (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.) is a plea for the abandonment of laissez-faire in the development of the English language and for basing its development upon certain......
The Cheap Books Company (149 Strand, W.c. 2) Have Sent
us their complete list of cheap editions, which can be had on application if a three-halfpenny stamp is enclosed. Books for all tastes can apparently be obtained in cheap......
The Conversations Of Dr. Johnson, Edited With An...
by R. W. Postgate (Knopf, 8s. ad.) is a very much abridged version of Boswell, made on the plea that the bulk of the original frightens off many potential Johnsonians. As an......
* * * * The School Journey Record, 1930, Obtainable
from the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. H. W. Barter, 35 Park View Road, Addiscombe, Croydon, at the cost of 2s. titd., is a very useful publication for anyone contemplating taking......
Anyone Who Wishes To Be Abreast Of The Progress Of
inter- national affairs must read and digest Geneva, 1930, by H. Wilson Harris (League of Nations Union, 9d.), the annual account of the Assembly. It is an eminently sensible......
General Crozier's Impressions And Recollections (werner...
written " at the top of his voice," as was his previous book, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, and falls into the category of those biographies of soldiers and actors whose lives......
Lord Birkenhead's Turning Points Of History (hutchinson....
sad book, misprinted, unrevised, disjointed. The author never saw the first proofs according to the foreword by Lady Birkenhead, and the rough draft of the book would appear to......
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Messrs. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. have issued in the Horne University Library three books (2s. Gd. each) which will be of great assistance to the general reader. They are The......
All Who Knew Or Served Under Sir Frederick Jackson Will
read with interest his posthumous volume entitled Early Days in East Africa (Arnold, 21s.). The reader without kiwi knowledge may find the account difficult to follow, so many......
New Editions Of Children's Books
The Happy Prince and Other Tales. By Oscar Wilde. (Duckworth. 41s. Gd.) The King of the Golden River. By John Ruskin. (The Studio, Ltd. 15s.)-The Windmill Man.' ,By A: H.......
General Knowledge Questions
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to W. J. Bakhurst, 57 Holt. whites Hill, Enfield, Middlesex, for the following......
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