Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage (dean And...
net) appears in due course. Debrett grows like other things, having added this year Arty more pages to a number before exceeding two thousand.—Another periodical volume which it......
At Shakespeare's Shrine. Edited By Charles F. Forshaw....
7s. 6d.)—Mr. Forshaw gives us here an anthology of praises of Shakespeare from poets old and new, from Bea Jonson down to the present time. There are more than a. hundred names......
Babylonian And Assyrian Laws, Contracts, And Letters. By...
W. Johns, M.A. (T. and T. Clark. 12s. net.)—There is a striking sentence in Mr. Johns's preface. He has been insisting on the great debt of modern civilisation to Babylonia.......
Christabel. By S. T. Coleridge. (aldine House. 3s. 6d.)—...
is one of the series of "Illustrated English Poems," edited by Ernest Rhys. Mr. Rhys's introduction is just what it should be, illuminating as far as the essential obscurity of......
The Merry Multifteet And The Mounting Multieorps. Created...
Johnson, Mast and Block Maker (retired). Put into Writing by Thomas O'Cluny. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. (J. M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d)—An amusing jeu d'esprit not innocent......
One Of The Facsimiles Of Costly Books Which Have Long
been among the desiderata of book-collectors is the Hypnerotomachia Potiphi/i (Methuen and CO., 63s. net). The Hypierotomachia was written in Venice by a Dominican monk, not of......
Stead's Annual (14 Norfolk Street, London, W.c., Is.)...
"Christmas Story" by Mr. Stead, and a number of illustrations, six of them coloured pictures, the others more or less related to the text. The whole is a quite astonishing......
" We'll Ravage And Rob, Well Bombard And Well Bully,"
we are not surprised. We are used to this sort of thing from the poet ; but the draughtsman has a better reputation, and we are sorry to see him encouraging such nonsense. The......
Modern Merry Men. By William Andrew. (a. Brown And Son.)
—Mr. Andrew, who has made sundry collections of literary curios, has put together in this volume" some of the best examples of the wit and humour of the Victorian age." He......
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