Mr. Robert Burness, Who Wrote Perseus, A Classical Story...

and Son), had a true faculty for tact of phrasing and variety of cadence. His poem is clearly told. Narrative is always difficult to handle, especially when it is interrupted by......

A Word Of Warning Should Be Given Concerning Mr. It.

J. Minney's Shiba or the Future of India (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.) and it is a matter of regret that an excellent series dignified by names such as Haldane, Russell, Maumis, and......

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Tun publisher styles Virgil, the Georgics (in English hexa- meters), by C. W.' Brodaibb- (Benn, 12s. 6d.), an excellent gift-book, and he is quite right. He has done his own......

Sir Josiah Stamp, Who Is Now Serving On The Reparations

Committee, is one of the few economists who have the con- fidence of all Governments and all parties. The clear and honest thinking which has gained him this position is exem-......

The Broadcast Addresses To Schools Which Supply The...

The Story of the Birds, by C. J. Patten (Pawson and Brailsford, 16s. 6d.) have in their passage to print become enlarged to more than twice their original size. The first half......

Now That Our Inland Watering-places Are Once More Gaining A

deserved popularity, the entertaining book by Miss Edith Humphris and the late Captain E. C. Willoughby on Cheltenham Spa (Knopf, 10s. 6d.) should find many readers. The authors......

American History Is Apt To Seem Cold And Colourless To

European readers. We miss the pageantry, the romantic glow of histories of older civilizations; Institutions in the New World are fitted like uniforms, not grown like skins ;......

The History Of Our English Roads Has Yet To Be

written. How interesting it will be, and how vivid a light it will throw upon the changing phases of our social and economic history and the rise or fall of individual towns,......

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