Which Of Us Remember That Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Is
a poet as well as a spiritualist, a master of the historical novel, and the arch-priest of the mystery story, in direct succession to Poe ? "The Old Grey Fox" -is sung wherever......
Lord Clinton And His Colleagues Are Now Holding Meetings Of
the Empire Forestry Conference in Australia, which has so little realized its own resources that it is a large importer of foreign timber. At home the Stationery Office sends us......
Black Rent. By Harold Begbie. (mills And Boon. 7s. 6d.)—mr.
Begbie (like "A Gentleman with a Duster," whom he so strongly resembles !) is very adroit in threading upon the slightest plot a series of incidents, scenes, and reflections......
Six Months To Live. By Charles Herbert. (wells, Gardner. 7s.
6d.) — Many novelists have toyed with the question as to how a man will behave who knows that a term is fixed to his life. Mr. Herbert supplies the same theme—with variations.......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 702.) Some travel books-seem to be full of words. Miss Rowan. Hamilton's Both Sides of the Jordan (Jenkins, 12s. 6d.) is one : she has more than 100,000 of......
A Book Of Broadsheets (methuen, 7s. 6d.) . Contains...
the very best both in prose and verse : it is a selection from those very broadsheets which the enterprise of the Times, aided by several famous hands—Walter Raleigh's among......
As A Guide To Some Of The Writers Most Popular
to-day, we may cordially commend Mr. St. John Adcock's The Glory that was Grub Street (Sampson Low, Marston, 7s. 6d.). Thirty- two excellent photographs add to the reader's......
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Falling into its place in -the Official History of the War comes the fourth volume of the Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1915 (Macmillan, 12s. 6d.), which has been......
Professor Ferdinand Ossendowski Of Warsaw Is One Of Those...
people who, starting with no knowledge at all of the African native mind, are willing to believe all that the negro tells them. That way disaster often lies, so far as......
Through Its Art We May More Surely Approach A . Nation's
" psyche " than by any other means. But art is long and especially the art of India, which, -as Mr; Haven tells us, is "a great synthesis embracing many different theological......
The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust Is Always Ready To Help
those who - are rendering priblic service in unusual ways. It- hag now - published -the-report-a-a joint -committee. 0f-the British Institute of Adult Education and the Tutors'......
School Children. It Is Divided Into Sections Dealing With...
evolution of vegetation from tiny Trim:Wye plants to large trees. The last chapter in the history of British flora, which tells of the immigration of plants is by far the most......
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