To J. S. Sargent, R.a., R.w.s. In The " Famous
Water- Colour Painters" series (Studio, Mr. Martin Hardie contributes an illuminating Introduction upon the artist's technique. Here he differs from Mr. Evan Charteris,......
In The Village Book (cape, 'ts. 6d.) Mr. Henry Williamson
deals with various aspects of life in a Devonshire village over- looking an estuarine and marshy stretch of coast. The present volume reflects the Winter and Spring seasons ;......
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Da. Faro Pums - ros was on the Rum coast from 1882 to 1896 and in African Drums (Gollanez, ITs.) he sets down the kind of life which a trader then had to lead, opening up new......
The Peninsular Journal Of Major-general Sir Benjamin...
21s.) is edited by Mr. I. J. Rousseau of the Rhodes University College, Grahamstown— with sonic appropriateness, for D'Urban, one of the greatest Governors Cape Colony ever had,......
The Publishers Of Miss Ethel Mannin's Confessions And...
10s. 6d.) are careful to point out that the authoress does not " indulge' in the fashionable; deplorable practice of being sensational at the expense of celebrities." Miss......
It Is Typical Of The Vagueness That Pervades Archaeology...
Mr. C. E. Vulliamy should tell us that "the first swords of the Early Iron Age were made of bronze," but so far as order can be introduced into the archaeological chaos Mr.......
The Competition
THE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local beliefs and superstition: current in the British Isles. The......