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The Mystics Of The Church

The Mystics of the Church. By Evelyn Underhill. (James Clarke and Co. 6s. net.) MISS EVELYN UNDERHILL has had a long and intimate know- ledge of many mystics in many ages. No......

Sam Noble, A.b. An Autobiography. (sampson Low. 7s. 6d.)

SAM` NOBLE, A.B:, has given us a perfectly simple, straight. forward story of his life as an able seaman during the early 'eighties in the Royal Navy. This record of a four-year......

Strange Adventures Of The Sea. By J. G. Lockett. (philip

Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.) STRANGE ADVENTURES OF THE SEA. By J. G. Lockett. (Philip Allan and Co. 8s. 6d.) THESE are twelve tales of adventure, ranging from Elizabethan times when......

Ships Of The Seven Seas. By Hawthorn Daniel. (heinemann....

SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS. By Hawthorn Daniel. (Heinemann. 156.) This is an exhaustive treatise on an enormous subject, with which the author has a good acquaintance. The book......

Five Yarns Of The Sea

THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION. By Capt. W. B. Whall. (Sampson Low. 16s.) CAPTAIN W. B. WHALL is a man who knew his job and loved it all his days, and the fruit of his love is......

Fair Winds And Foul. By Frederick Parry. (martin...

Co. 10s. 6d.) HERE are hell's hatches let loose, with knives and belaying pins and fists and boots freely used as weapons of offence: This is the yarn of a youngster who went to......

Barrett Wendell

Barrett Wendell and his Letters. By M. A. DeWolfe Howe. (Oxford University Press. 18s.) A LITERARY man of the type of Barrett Wendell seems all his life long multiplying matter......

The Quarterlies In The New Edinburgh Review Sir Valentin*...

writes a grave, we might say a threatening, article on " The World Problem of Colour." He reminds us that there are twice as many coloured people in the world as there are white......