General Knowledge Questions
Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. W. F. Broadbent, Halefield, Wendover, Bucks, for the following :- Questions......
There Is Any Amount Of Useful Work To Be Done
on this subject of migration movements, and students of public affairs could not employ their time and talents better than in tracing the intimate connexion between population......
We Fice - Ve Received The Fourth Volume Of The Annals Of
the Kings Royal,Rijle COly". by Major-General Sir Steuart Hare (Murray, 25s-.), covering the period from the Zulu War of 1819 to-the Great War. The book , is more than a history......
Of The Many Volumes Concerned With Royalty Which Have Been
lately published, two of the latest and best are Mr. F. A. Mackenzie's King George V. in his own Words (Berm. 12s. 6d.) and Sir George Aston's H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught......
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In the name of all students of English history we must warmly congratulate Mr. Vicary Gibbs, Mr. H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden on the appearance of the seventh......
Mr. H. W. Fowler Knows His Limitations, And Writes About
them with a graceful exaggeration which leaves the reader no alternative to admiration. The essays in If Wishes were Horses (George Allen and Unwin, 6s.), first published anony-......
" The Most Fascinating Feature Of Hunting Game Is Tracking."
Thus Mr. Denis D. Lyell in The Hunting and Spoor of Central African Game. Hunting, not killing, is Mr. Lyell's sport, and he has many wise words to say on hunting ethics, and on......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 59.) Those of us who recognize that demographic facts are of greater importance than democratic theory in the politics of the world to-day must_ with......
A Vivid Account Of The Damage Done By The Chinese
armies to the railways may be found in Mr. H. Stringer's China : A New Aspect (Witherby, 12s. 6d.). The author has served on the railways in China, and he laments the fate that......
A Library List
REFERENCE BOOKS :-Cook's Traveller's Handbook to Belgium,. By Roy Elston. (Simpkin Marshall. 5s.)-The Every- day Games Book. By V. C. Alexander. (Evans Bros. 2s. 6d.)--The......
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