How The Lightning Conductor Came To Be Written And What
Edward VII said of it; how in a short time after landing in England from America Miss Alice Livingston (as she was then) was making over 21,000 a year in serial stories, running......
Professor A. B. Keith, Whose Standard Works On Imperial...
should be familiar to all political students, has sup- plied a long felt need by writing a Constitutional History of the First British Empire (Clarendon Press, 21s.). That......
Books On African Local Ornithology Are Not Common, And Mr.
C. F. Belcher's The Birds of Nyassaland (Crosby Lockwood, 15s.) supplies a systematic, annotated list which will be useful to settlers in that country. But the book possesses......
Distinctly A Joyous Book Is Mr. Jefferson Wimamson's The...
Hotel (Knopf, I5s.) As the hotel business ranks ninth among America's major industries, there is a clear call for a book which gives an anecdotal history of the evolution of the......
In Leo Tolstoy And His Works (routledge, 6d.), Mr. Aylmer
Maude has performed the difficult task of "introducing" Tolstoy in a pamphlet of some seventy pages. Within such limits it is scarcely possible to do justice both to Tolstoy,......
Now That So Many Of Us Take A Practical Interest
in the English roads, the Ordnance Survey's new coloured Map of XVII Century England (mounted, 6s., and paper, 5s;) should find many delighted readers. For it reconstructs, on a......
The Late Mr. David Croal Thomson Was Known To A
wide circle of friends here and abroad as a true lover of art, and it is pleasant to find in Barbizon House, 1930, published by his son and successor, Mr. Lockett Thomson, a......
Sir Richard Temple's Painstaking Research And His...
the Hakluyt Society of the Binerey Papers litve enabled him in The Tragedy of the Worcester, 1704-5 (Bettn, 25s.), to illumine definitely and once for all another dark corner of......
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