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The Tragic Empress (skeffington, 21s.) Gives Us Many...

if unconscious, glimpses of the author, the Cointesse des Garcia, rather than of its subject, the Empires Eugenie. The Empress was indubitably a woman of great beauty and......

For Over Half A Century The Society For The Protection

of Ancient Buildings (20 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, W.C. 2) has been carrying on its. work, and its fifty-third Annual Report (28. 6d.) is informing and encouraging. Private......

Government Publications Find Few Readers, But A New Book...

by the Punjab Government deserves the widest popularity. European Adventurers of Northern India, 1785- 1849, by Mr. C. Grey, edited by Mr. H. L. 0. Garrett, Keeper of the Punjab......

Just Because We Have Not Scrupled To Criticize British Manu-

facturers who disregard the needs of Overseas markets we are glad to pay tribute where tribute is due. At the Royal Show that opened in Manchester, on Tuesday, July 8th, there......

The Plays In The Hot Above The Tarn, And Other

plays, by Nevin Halys (Methuen, 6s.), are perhaps more suited for acting by amateurs than for the professional stage. That is not to say, however, that they are without merit.......

A Word Of Commendation Is Due To The British Research

Association for the Woollen and Worsted Industries with headquarters at Headingley, Leeds. As from July 1st a new scheme of financial support was introduced, providing an......

A Committee For Legalizing Engenic Sterilization, Of...

Mallet, K.C.B., is Chairman, has just issued a pamphlet setting forth its aims. It has had the expert advice of Dr. E. 0. Lewis, Prof. Julian Huxley and others, and claims that......

Notes For Collectors

OLD tapestries are the most satisfying decoration -for a room, if one has sufficient wall space, and they represent an infinity of patient skilled labour. It is just, on all......