The Second Part Of Mr. Spencer Savage's Translation Of The

hlortus Floridus, by Crispin de Pass, has now been issued (Cresset Press, 30s.). There is no need to recommend this beautiful volume, reproduced in script lettering with all the......

Mrs. Williams-ellis In Her Introductory Note To Men Who...

Out (Gerald Howe, 5s.) tells us that these brief biographies of scientists, which she broadcast to schools last spring, are intended for boys and girls from about nine to......

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MUTINY in the British Service has been very rare, even among the rank and file, so that cases like the outbreak in the Fleet at the Nore in 1797 are taken very seriously by the......

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We Are Glad To Welcome A New Edition Of Home

: A Colonial's Adventure (Longmans, Green, 4s. 6d.), which contains eighteen impressions of England and the English by Mr. Alan Mulgan. The chapters on London, Devon, and the......

There Is A Good Story In Crusader's Coast, By Mr.

Edward Thompson (Benn, 10s. 6d.), of a shepherd lad brought before the Military Governor of Jerusalem for throwing bombs. His defence was that he had found lots of these little......

" The Glorious Oyster—his History In Rome And In Britain,

his anatomy and reproduction, how to cook him, and what various writers and poets have written in his praise, collected together as an acknowledgment of the supreme pleasure he......

Andrew Johnson, By Lloyd Paul Stryker (macmillian, 25s.),...

as President of the United States. A terrible predicament for any man ! The most interesting part of this long and detailed eulogy or, should we rather say, vindication of a......

This Most Charming Book Is, Of Course, All Moonshine," But

when he recounts the adventures of Dr. Doolittle in the Moon (Jonathan Cape, 7s. 6d.) Mr. Lofting, satisfies one of the lesser longings of the human heart. We earthlings must......