7 MAY 1927, page 19

The Description Of An Operation In Lord Lister's Time, In

Lister as I Knew Him, by Dr. J. R. Leeson (Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 8s: (3d.)-, is arresting, although ghastly reading for the modern reader. We closed the book feeling......

This Week's Books Signor Corrado Ricci's Umbria Santa...

Gywer, 12s. 6d.) is frankly a disappointing book. The second para- graph gives hope of much of interest to follow :- " The whole of Italy joined in this great work of......

Mr. Noppen's Short Guide To The Mediaeval Art Of West-

minster Abbey (Harrison, ls. 6d.) is more than a conden- sation of his excellent Westminster Abbey and Its Ancient Art already reviewed in these columns, but it displays the......

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Books Illustrated, whose object is to encourage reading. It is well illustrated and well arranged under such headings as Travel, Sport, Fiction, Reminiscences, &e. We wish it......

It Is A Remarkable Fact That The Albanians Who Under

the Turks showed a passionate attachment to their own country, now that their country has been freed, are flocking to America as fast as they can—so say Jan and Cora Gordon in......

Mr. Bernard Shaw Contributes An Extremely Amusing Preface...

Plays by William Archer (Constable. 10s.). The late William Archer, he tells us, Was incorruptible as a dramatic critic. " In his day there were two methods of amiable......

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Canon Birmingham has a distinctive and delightful style as an essayist. It is his gift of ease and relaxation which make him pleasant to read, but there are many deeper......

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Messrs. Gerald Howe send us in an attractive format sventy-five old English songs composed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Many of these will be new to musical......

Mr. Lawrence Binyon Is To Be Heartily Congratulated On The

very interesting text of the sumptuous new volume of the Eumorfopoulos Collection published by Messrs. Bean (£1 `2 12s.) dealing with the wonderful Yiieh Shan Tung and Ching......

Edited By Mr. Humbert Wolfe, Who Contributes An Intro-...

note to the selected works of each poet, the second series of the Augustan Books of English poetry (Benn, 6d. each), the first six numbers of which we have just received,......

The New Competition Tax Editor Offers A Prize Of £5

for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come nearest to the popular verdicts......