7 FEBRUARY 1931, page 22

The Descriptive Sociology . Of Africa It Is Over Fifty Years

since Professor Duncan completed his volume on African races in Herbert Spencer's series of Descriptive Sociology. Since then the blank spaces of Africa have almost disappeared......

The Old Order

Things I Remember. By Tho Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. (Cassell. 21s.) TuE Emperor Nicholas the First used to say to his children, " always act so that you will be forgiven......

Punishment

MRS. Wrcsor/ writes so well that one is in danger of reading her book, so attractively produced by Mr. Cape, for the sheer joy of it. And that would be a pity, for Mrs. Wilson......