Georges Cain, As Curator Of The Carnavalet Museum, Had Great

qualifications as a guide to Paris, and in Nooks and Corners of Old Paris (Richards Press, 21s.) he described for us twenty years ago some of the byways and foul dens on which......

One Of The Most Eminent Of Swedish Psychotherapists Is Dr.

Paul Bjerre. In Death and Renewal (Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.) he has written a book which is neither psychology, philosophy, nor religion ; it is a tentative and......

Some Books Of The Week

Ativ one who knows what it means to travel by ox-waggon over rocks and through sand in what the Boers so expressively c all " the Thirst " will smile a little to hear the......

Now That The English Place-name Society Is Putting This...

study on a sound basis, it is most important that its work should be made widely known. We are delighted, therefore, to see that Mr. M. J. C. Meiklejohn has written a little......

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Although Mr. F. A. M. Webster's Athletics Of To-day...

Warne, 12s. 6d.) is marred by some small inaccur- acies, it is probably the most entertaining and complete history of modern field sports yet written. As Lord Burghley says in......

A Holiday Competition Tun Editor Offers A Prize Of Five

guineas for the most practical suggestion for a holiday on a stated sum, which may be any- thing from £10 to E100 (including all travelling expenses), in not more than seven......

The Best Short Story In Arabic Was Written In The

middle of the twelfth century in Southern Spain by Ibn Tufail, the Wazir of the Moslem Lord of the West, Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf. It is the account of a man-child alone like......

Is There Any Stranger Character In History Than Le Rol

Soleil, with his high-heeled shoes and airs and graces, disguising a short stature and a long head ? Certainly Louis was a great King by whatever canon we judge him : the......