Colonel Arthur Brookfield's Annals Of A Chequered Life'...
begins as a very buoyant autobiography. He runs away from school, he drinks port with Lord Tennyson, he is diamisSed froth Sandhurat Owing - to an undue fondness' for......
Jane Austen's True Lovers Can Never Talk Nor Read Nor
hear too much about her. She has that quality of in- exhaustibleness which belongs only to the very great. Mr. C. L. Thomson's new survey of her life and books, Jane Austen......
The Supreme Achievement Of . Lucretius Was To .write A
scientific treatise in some -of the finest verse in the realm of literature. To render this into another.language is not .easy ; perhaps it is not possible. -The latest......
Some Books- Of The Week
CAN literature be , " taught " ? . An enthusiastic teacher can infect his . pupils_with something of his own zeal. .But when inspiration is lacking will the best methods - be......
Mr. Harold Herd Has Written Another Thought-provoking...
The . Newspaper . of TO-MOTTOVJ (Alleni and Unwin, 3s.. 6d.) he foretells an improvement in the general standard of neripapers to satisfy a higher standard of general culture.......
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Successful banisters, accustomed to influence twelve good men and true, have powers of suasion over that larger jury, the reading public, which many a professional writer must......
A New Competition
EVERYBODY is talking about' the Italian Pictures. The Editor therefore offers a prize for the most entertaining or illuminating comment on them, or anecdote referring to them,......
. , . Balzac, The Bridge-builder Between Romanticism And...
_and - the forerunner_ of Flaubert, Maupassant 'and Zola; is stated by his lateit biOgrapher, Mr. Francis to have had only two desires in life : to be famOus and to be loved.......
("general Knowledge Ctimpetition" And "more Books Of The...
be found on pages 244 and 247.)......
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