Mr. William Margrie Has Written A Very Odd Book About
a superman, called The Story 'of 1 Great Experiment. If Messrs. Watts had published it in deiny qUarto, on vellum, at several guineas; with suitable pictUreS and Press......
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• MR. GEOFFREY KEYNES and the Nonesuch Press are to be congratulated once more on their splendid Pencil Drawings of William Blake (35s.). Here is some of the best of Blake, and......
Samuel Butler's Preface To Shakespeare's Sonnets Recon-...
6d.) raises ghosts of Victorian controversies. Writing in 1899, he mentions that he himself has been taxed with writing a poem in the Spectator, signed S.B., of which he knows......
Madame Vahdah Jeanne Bordeux Was Living In Italy During The
time of the Socialist regime, and saw the rise of Fascism and its necessity. She has written a big volume on her hero— Benito Mussolini—the Man (Hutchinson, 18s.), which is well......
Mr. Finberg Is Certainly To Be Congratulated On His Abridg-
ment of Ruskin's Modern Painters (Bell. 105.). Ruskin's prose, as he says, is so fearless and uncompromising, so clear, eloquent and delightful that even his errors are......
The Trust Houses, Limited, Issue At The Nominal Price Of
two shillings, Tales of Old Inns ; a little volume which, by reason of its charming illustrations by Mr. W. M. Keesey, it is pleasant to possess, in addition to its being an......
General Knowledge Questions The Editor Awards The Prize...
guinea offered weekly for the best thirteen general knowledge questions and answers to "M. B. S." for the following :- Questions on Robert Browning 1. Which is the longest and......
In Our Review Of The Magic Mountain, By Thomas Mann
(Seeker, 18s.), in our issue of August 27th, we should have ascribed the translation to Mrs. Lowe-Porter (not Mr.),......
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"Blake has not been understood. He will continue not to be understood," is Mr. Jack Lindsay's pessimistic commen- tary on the probable _result of his own little book—William......
The World Of Punch—and That Must Be Very Nearly The
• whole world—will like to possess in one volume Parrot Pie (Harrap, OS.)—a collection of Mr. W. K. Seymour's pleasant parodies of some fifty writers of the day. With so rich a......
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