19 JANUARY 1929, page 20

It Is A Pity That An Undergraduate's Damp Squib Should

have been allowed to figure among the fascinating intellectual fireworks of the " To-day and To-morrow Series " (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.). Mr. Julian Hall, recently of Balliol, •......

Conrad To A Friend 150 Selected Letters To Richard Curie

(Sampson Low, 10s. 6d.) are a good accompaniment to Mr. Curie's Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad, which was recently reviewed in these columns at some length. The devout......

We Have Received An Advance Copy Of The. Catalogue Of

the British Industries Fair . 1929 (H.M. Stationery Office, ls.). It has a plan of the Fair, a list of exhibitors in alphabetical order, and another list classified according to......

To Attempt To Demonstrate The Truth Of The Evolutionary...

in biology may seem to modern English readers to be rather an otiose enterprise. In editing Creation by Evolution (Macmillan, 21s.) Miss Frances Mason evidently, has . in mind......

Some Books Of The Week

Sia WILFRED GRENTELlo of Labrador, contributes a Preface to The Life and Teaching of Christ chronologically arranged by Reginald Ponsonby (Simpkin, Marshall, 7s. 6d.), an......

The Fiftieth Anniversary Number Of The St. 'louis Post-...

is -not one large, gorgeous edition of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer's paper, but an elegant, purple portfolio of Anniver- sary Numbers -dealing with a variety of subjeets, and con-......

A New Competition

Tux Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best answer in three hundred words to the question, " Why I shall or shall not travel by the Channel Tunnel ? "—if and when it......

(" More 'books Of The Week" And " General Knowledge

Com- petition" will be found on pages 94 and 97.) •......