Mr. Thomas Derrick Is A Black-and-white Artist Of...
power. In The Prodigal Son and Other Parables (Basil Blackwell, 7s. 6d.) he applies in his twentieth- century illustrations to four familiar passages from the New Testament the......
The " Broadway Travellers " Series Contains Many...
nothing more curious than the new volume, The Travels of an Alchemist, translated by Mr. Arthur Waley from the thirteenth - century Chinese Li Chili-Chang (Routledge, 10s. 6d.).......
Sir J. A. R. Marriott Shows All His Practised Skill
in A History of Europe from 1815 to 1923 (Methuen, 18s.)—the last volume of an eight-volume history of Europe by various authorities, of which only this section and Professor......
Some Books Of The Week
The Land of Ranji and Duleep, by C. A. Kincaid (Black- wood, 12s. 6d.), does not entirely fulfil the promise of its title ; since it is concerned less with Nawanagar, with its......
My South Sea Island, By Eric Muspratt (hopkinson, 7s. 6d.),
is at first sight somewhat disappointing, but the recovery is immediate. In these days of economy of material there is something very exhilarating in an author who can dispose......
Good Wine Needs No Bush. Major Lefebure's Book On Scientific
Disarmament (Mundanus, 5s.) seems to need a miniature forest ; for fifteen eminent ladies and gentlemen from five different countries have been enlisted to express prefatory......