The Hundred Celebrated Men And Women Who Have Answered Mr.

Leonard Henslowe's questions in Living As We Do (Herbert Joseph. 2s. 6d.), giving the world such details as their age, profession diet, whether they drink or smoke, how many......

Mr. A. L. Humphreys' Charming Little Pamphlet, How To .write

a Village History, which he publishes at York Lodge, Reading, for a shilling, ought to have a very large circulation. For in it an accomplished and enthusiastic archaeologist......

Mr. Dreiscr Has Gathered Together In Color Of A Great

City (Constable, 10s.), a number of sketches and impressions, w - ritten sonic years ago, of the New York that has vanished. Contrasting that city of the early nineteen-hundreds......

Fired By The Exploits Of The Heraei And Friends Of

his boyhood, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Roald ATIMMISCO, Count Byron Khun de Prorok has explored in many parts of the world, but particularly the Sahara, where lie......

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Why So Important, Indeed So Great, A Book As Who

Were the Greeks, by Professor J. L. Myres (Cambridge University Press, 30s.) should be produced in so repellent a form is pre- sumably known to the University of California......

Some Books Of The Week

PREVENTION is better than cure, as the annals of preventive medicine show. While the physician may cure a few sick patients, preventive methods rightly applied save millions......

A New Competition

THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local beliefs and superstition; current in the British Isles. The......

The Name Of Archdeacon Charles Stands For A Fearless And

original treatment of religious themes, informed by profound scholarship. Hence his new volume of WORMS, The Resur- rection of Man, which Messrs. T. and T. Clarke have appro-......