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The Late President Of Clark University Is Little Known In

England, but there is no doubt that Mr. Stanley Hall was a re- markable man and an original thinker. Miss Lorine Pruette has written a very interesting account of his life and......

The Quakers' Work In The War

IT was surely a good thing to bring together the record of all those activities, so widely scattered yet so unified in purpose. which together make up the wonderful story of......

The Third Volume Of The Forests Of India (lane, 42s.),

by Mr. E.P.Stebbing, late of the I.F.S., brings the story of forest conseiVaney and the development of the research in India up to 11/25. The volume is well illustrated and......

The Iceland Year Book, 1926, Has Quite Convinced Us Of

the . superiority of Reykjavik in the summer over Covent Garden.' We would like to see the residence of Snorri Sturluson, Iceland's foremost son, where "there are two......

Tms Week's Books

Dn. NicnoIA9 Munnitv Bum.En's address to the American Society in London, on Independence Day, has been reprinted in New York. Dr. Butler says the usual things with eloquence and......

We Have Received Woodcuts (cambridge University Press,...

illustrations executed by boys between the ages of twelve and seventeen at the Bembridge School. Mr. J. Brandon Jones' designs show a very remarkable power, and he would no......

The Vienna Police Are Pretty " Hard-boiled," Mr. Joseph...

tells us. When they receive a cigarette box with the finger of a woman in it they, hardly turn a hair. Such an incident is alt in the day's work. But when, on one occasion, they......

The Study Of Mass Clocks-an Early Form Of Sundials-would Be

a new and interesting hobby, and also an inexpensive one, for there are few Mass Clocks in England, and those that there are cannot be collected, but only studied on the spot.......

The Wonders Of Electricity Are Very Little Known To The

average man and woman of to-day, in spite of the remarkable extent to which we rely on this mysterious force for our news, lighting and locomotion. The Electrical Publicity......

Books Recommended

LrrEnArunn.-.21filion's Poems. - Two Volumes. (Nonesuch. £2 7s. 6d.) Six Volumes of the Loeb Classical Library, Jo§ephus, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, Pausanias, Epietetus.......

Nal Week.-an Article By Professor Julian Huxley On The .

• _ meetings of Me British Association at 0,eford.......