Fishing Boats And Barges. By C. A. Wilkinson And Walter
Wood. (John Lane. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. C. A. Wilkinson is happy hi his twenty woodcuts of various English• fishing boats and barges contained in this handsome volume. Everyone who......
It Is Unnecessary For Us To Do More Than Hang
a small wreath on such a monument of hagiological scholarship as these two volumes . represent. They are an invaluable supplement to Mr. Plummer's Latin Lives, Vitae San ctorum......
Man. By Adelaide Eden Phillpotts. (constable. Os. Net.)...
fable about Man, Maid, and Dog, with an obtrusive moral—spiritual growth comes through unselfishness.......
The Author Of That Informing Work, The Present State Of
English Furniture, devotes his new book to walnut and lacquer exclusively, the period covered being roughly from the Res- toration to 1745. The plates are excellent, as are also......
Other Novels.
THE ILLUSION. By Raymond Escholier. (Putnam. 7s. 6d. net.)—Although Dansons La Trompeuse is essentially one of those books which must be read in the original if its whole beauty......
Society Sensations. By Charles Kingston. (s. Paul. 12s. 6d.)
Mr. Kingston retells sixteen of the causes celebres that have intrigued Society during these last hundred years. Most of them are divorce suits, such as the Colin-Campbell, the......
The Five Jars. By M. R. James. (arnold. Os. Net.)—
The Provost of Eton, who has written some of our best and most haunting ghost stories, is seen here in a lighter atmosphere. In The Five Jars he gives us a delightful fantasy of......
The Real Robert Burns. By J. L. Hughes. (chambers. 6s.)
The author begins with a chapter on the nature and value of biography. He writes : "Only the good in the lives of great men should be recorded in biographies. To relate the evil......
From Sawdust To Windsor Castle. By Whimsical Walker....
and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. Walker had a rigorous apprenticeship to the art of clowning. He was born in 1851 at the 'March of Intellect' public-house at Hull. He ran away from......
The Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1772-1922.
We congratulate that good old country paper, the Shrewsbury Chronicle, on completing its hundred and fiftieth year. It is a few weeks younger than the Morning Post, having first......
Some Books Of The Week..
( Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) BAROTSELAND. By D. W. Stirke. (John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson. 21s. net.) The Barotse are an African......
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