The Joy Of Life. By E. V. Lucas. (methuen. In
this book Mr. Lucas has made a pleasant little anthology of verse and given it a title which, translated into a more readily understood language, means " Some Cheerful Poems......
The Autobiography Of . A Border Policeman. By Lt.-col. H....
Stevens, D.S.O. (Witherby. 16s.} - - 'Don't talk b— rot !' he said angrily," is a typical extract from an illiterate book that describes itself as an autobiography of a trooper......
Motherhood And Its Enemies. By Charlotte Haldane. (chatto...
6s.)—It is perhaps unfair to charge a book intended as a general survey with an eclecti- cism of method, but a work from Mrs. Haldane's pen is of scientific importance and must......
The Correspondence Of Henry Crabb Robin- Son With The...
CIRCLE (1808-1866). Edited by Edith J. Morley. (Clarendon Press. 2 vols. 42s.)-- Wordsworthians will be grateful to Miss Morley for the infinite care with which she has edited......
Warren Hastings' Letters To Sir John Macpherson. Edited...
Dodwell. (Faber and Gwyer. 15s.)—Professor Dodwell has been fortunate in finding, and skilful in editing, a batch of new letters mainly written by Warren Hastings to his friend......
Journal. Of The Waterloo Campaign. By The Late General...
Mercer. With an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.)--A reprint of Mercer's admirably graphic narrative of the Waterloo campaign is distinctly......
Current Literature
no doubt that those who call themselves the Liberal Party have brains out of proportion to their exiguous repre- sentation in Parliament. Here we have, reprinted with the......
Shell Life. By Edward Step, F.l.s. (warne. 7s. 6d) —rt
should be enough, perhaps, simply to record the fact that Professor Step has written a book about British shell-fish, or molluscs—whichever you like to call them : both terms......
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