Some Books Of The Week Tau Vast Scope And Mysterious

outlines of such a theme as The Meaning of Life as shown in the Process of Evolution (Watts and Co., The Forum Series, 7d. and ls.), when proposed as the subject of a popular......

Information Of Every Kind Is Contained In The Daily Mail

Year Book, 1929 (Associated Newspapers, 18.), from the salaries of Cabinet Ministers to a survey of feminine fashions of the year 1928. Mr. Robert Boothby's article on " How the......

Among The Tales Of Old Travel Which Delight Englishmen Of

all ages must be reckoned the voyages of our Elizabethan gentlemen pirates and their prototypes, the Conquistadores of Spain. With the Letters of Hernando Cortes, 1519-1526,......

That Inigo Jones Was An Accomplished Artist Is Well Known.

The Banqueting Hall in' Whitehall and the Queen's House at Greenwich attest his skill and taste as an architect. But the nature of his work has been misunderstood. Mr. J. Alfred......

Mr. A. S. Collins In His New Book The Profession

of Letters (Routledge, 12s. 6d.) carries on the fascinating story which he began in Authorship in the Days of Johnson. One of the more remarkable things about literature as a......

A New Competition

Barry Island-1 send in homage the topaz of my silence—. Your threepennybit. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most plausible explanation of this message, taken......

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