Soul And Body
PSYCHOLOGY is, or should be, the corner-stone of the natural sciences and the' foundation of the spiritual sciences : the region it deals with is exactly in the juncture of body......
The Book Of American Negro Spirituals (chapman And Hall....
6d.) gives the words and music of those remarkable • expressions. of the genius of the American negro that combine the throb of African rhythms and the cry of a people once......
This Week's Books
Paw bishops have hunted ostriches, but Synesius did. He was passionately fond of sport, a philosopher, and writer with what is called nowadays a human touch (of the bedside......
Romantic Prance, By Miss .elsner (jenkins. 10s. 6d.),...
of Avignon, with its Popes 'and Anti-Popes, the Courts of Love of the' troubadours; - Queen Jeanne, King Rene, and a hundred other delightful_ scenes and characters: •. This is......
But Perhaps, In Matters Of Self-defence, It Would Be Well
to be guided by M. Georges Carpentier, who has written an • excellent book on The Art of Boxing (Harrap. 3s. 6d.). There is a good picture of the " fistic Apollo" delivering his......
Joseph Pulitzer Was A Very Different Man From W. T.
Stead; but he shares with the latter the distinction of being a noted journalist, " a superman of the street." Messrs.- Geoffrey Bles have just published Joseph Pulitzer, • by......
An Original And Apparently A Practical • Little Book' Is
The Walking Slick Method of Self-Defence, written by an officer of the Indian' Police (Athletic Publication. 3s.). Among various weighty testimonials to this method of self-......
* * * * Noppen Has Just Published A Carefully-written
and beautifully-illustrated book on Westminster Abbey and its Ancient Art (Burrow. 215.). The shrines of the Abbey tell the story of the faith of our fathers ; this volume,......
A New Competition
The Editor offers a prize of SZ for a "Specimen Day" in not more than 1,000 words. If only four hundred words are used we shall be so much the happier. But we have _set the......
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