7 FEBRUARY 1925, page 18

Books

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS HORACE WALPOLE when he was an old man, "turned of seventy-one," was persuaded by Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry to put down in writing the stories of his......

Mr. R. L. Hobson Has Written A Treatise On The

Later Ceramic Wares of China (Benn), and has illustrated it with seventy-six excellent illustrations. He reminds us that during the whole of his period (The Manchu dynasty, 1644......

The History Of The Past Six Or Seven Years In

Hungary should have much light thrown upon it by the publication of Fighting the World : the Struggle for Peace, by Count Michael Karolyi, ex-premier of Hungary (Kegan Paul).......

An Extremely Important Book In The Quantity Of "case....

it gives is Dr. John T. MacCurdy's The Psychology of Emotion : Morbid and Normal (Kegan Paul). It is Dr. MacCurdy's aim to show how closely the psychology of the insane follows......

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The Editor of the SPECTATOR offers a prize of £5 for an original four-line epigram on " The Modern World." MR. J. ST. LOE STRACHEY writes : "From every point of view the Epigram......

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