15 SEPTEMBER 1928, page 25

The Moderns In Argument

IN this half-teasing and altogether engaging volume Mr. Humbert Wolfe hovers brilliantly over the aesthetic quarrels of the day. He is himself a Romantic, though needlessly......

Happy Old Age

Why Not Grow Young ? By Robert W. Service. (Bean. 6s.) THE author dedicates his volume to the middle-aged man, but I am not . quite sure whether this entertaining book is going......

The New View Of Mendelism

Modern Biology. By J. T. Cunningham. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6c1.) Daawnossr—evolution principally by natural selection— rather badly shattered Lamarck's mystic biological belief that......