Some Books Of The Week
TIM chill sub-Polar world where his work lies must have seemed a far cry when Sir Wilfrid Grenfell wrote Labrador . Looks at the Orient (Jarrolds, 15s.). Round the world the......
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No one can explain better What is Eugenics (Watts, Is.) than Mr. Leonard Darwin, who has for so long been President of the Eugenics Society. This little volume is very......
It Is Not Difficult To Praise Oh, Helicon ! (blackwood,
5s.), as readers of Punch (from which most of these poems have been reprinted) can understand, and we can guarantee to all " Dum-Dum's " many readers a merry hour.......
In Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries Of Boyhood And Youth...
6d.) we are shown the boyhood of one of America's greatest citizens. In a manner which combines something of the charm of When We Were Very Young with the less affected parts of......
Mr. Aldington's Translation Of Candide (lane, 21s.) Is...
witty and preceded by an extremely good introduction, describing the philosophical origins of Candide and relating the brilliant rocket of Voltaire's satire to those pro- found......
Professor Toynbee, To Whom All Serious Students Of...
be grateful, has now produced his Survey of International Affairs for 1926, with very detailed treatment of the League's doings, of the question of war debts, and of the Chinese......
The Bases Of Modern Science (henn, 12s. 6d.) Is A
disap- pointing book to come from a writer as distinguished as Mr. J. W. N. Sullivan. He tells us he has deliberately omitted the use of mathematical symbols; but he has not......
Some Unpublished Illustrations Connected With Dickens...
Dickens' Memories of My Father (G011ancz, 6s.)—We have, for instance, a reproduction of a shorthand lesson which Charles Dickens gave his son, and a picture of him out driving......
There Has Been No "king Of Escapes" Who At All
measured Up to the stature of Houdini. No handcuffs, no prisons, no safes in the whole world could hold him ; and he fulfilled the most rigorous conditions in struggling out of......
The Competition At One Time Or Another Every One Of
us has either mistaken the identity of some one else or has been mistaken for some one else—a contretemps which generally resulted in all amusing or even a tragic situation. The......
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