7 JULY 1928, page 35

This Is The Day Of Handy Little Books, Which May

be carried about anywhere. We congratulate Messrs. Cassell on theft Pocket Library (3s. 6d. a volume), a new venture in this dired- tion. The binding, printing and paper used......

A Useful Selection Of Leaflets On First Aid, The Danger

to public health of flies, how to avoid rheumatism and whooping cough, also sonic hints on dietetics, have been published by the Wesleyan and General Assurance Society and may......

His Elizabeth. By Elswyth Thane. (murray. Os.) —tommy...

a young poet. He is the son of a Bishop, but is descended on his mother's side from the French troubadours. Visiting Paris, he falls in love with a girl whom he mistakes for......

Some Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 20.) In a brief preface Mr. Compton Mackenzie sums up the spirit of Mr. Basil Maine's Behold These Daniels (H. and W. Brown) as one of disinterested......

Humour And History

When West was West. By Owen Wister. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) THESE new tales of Mr. Owen Wister show us an 'America now far in the past, the America of the 'eighty's. He writes of......

One Of The World's Best Travel-books Is Travels In Tartary,

Thibet and China, 1844-46, by Hue and Gabet. It is brought out again in scholarly fashion at a price moderate for the bulk. (Translated by William Hazlitt. Edited with an......

• * * * * , Mr. Edwin Wooton Adopts

aggravating overtones 61 superior knowledge in How to Keep Young (Heinemann's - Medical Books, 8s. 6d.). He tells us that a medical practitioner in Birmingham claims to have......