It Is Not An Enviable Thing To Be The Child
of a famous person, for such an inheritance can weigh down the second generation with. a sense of deadly finality. Miss Viola Meynell has Rot succumbed. She stands as an......
The Present Exhibition At Burlington . House Has Invested...
Persian with a new interest. The Bdhei'i World, recording the progress of a movement which arose in Persia during the last century, proves that the land of Omar Khayyam has more......
The Foundation Of St. Nicholas College For Specialized...
Church Music has already become a landmark in the history of the Church of England. When Dr. Nichoison first announced his plan, many were inclined to think that it was quite......
It May Be Pedantry To Object To An Abridgment Of
Boswell's Johnson. It is not pedantry to open such an abridgment in a critical spirit. We do- not think, however, that the truest lovers of Dr. Johnson will grudge this "......
Ardent Collectors Of Mr. Humbert Wolfe's Poetry Will...
selection called Early Poems, republished by Basil Blackwell at six shillings. It contains the London Sonnets—that slim book which was the Hesperus of his now deeply......
The Twenty-sixth Annual Issue Of Australia- To-day : 1931 ("
The Australian- Traveller,". Commerce House. 328 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Australia, 2s. 6d.) is devoted above all to the encouragement of immigration froth _Great Britain.......
In His Short, But Arresting Book, God In The Slums
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.), Mr. Hugh Redwood describes the work of the Salvation Army in the slums of South London. " Modern miracles " are recounted with fascinating......
The Keepsakes And Forget-me-nots And Other, Annuals Of...
nineteenth century have been a subject of ridicule for decades. They were very popular in their day, but the many copies printed cannot have been very carefully preserved, for......
Mr. Robson Has Written An Authoritative Book On The...
of Local Government (George Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.). Few people, perhaps, realize the immense import- ance of local government in our modern community. Suffice it to say that......
Answers To Questions On Plutarch's " Lives "
1. Cicero.-2. Alcibiades.-3. Pompey's.-4. Pericles.— 5. Anaxagoras.-6. Demosthenes.-7. - Alexander, of Buce- phalus. 8. Pericles—his head was too long and out of proportion to......
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