Messrs. Warne Send A Stout Pocket-volume, The Fishes Of The
British Isles, by J. Travis Jenkins. The book gathers together information on the characteristics and habits of salt-water and fresh-water fish that has previously been scat-......
This Week's Books
ONE of the most notable ventures in publishing recently has been Messrs. Benn's series of "Augustan Books of Poetry." Here side by side we are given selections from acknowledged......
Odd Proverbs And Aphorisms, Curious Facts, And Epigram-...
are drawn upon for the small anthology, Treasure Trove, by John o' London (Newnes). There is Montaigne's wicked jest; "Man is Certainly stark mad, he cannot make - a ilea, and......
Report On The Seventh Competition
The Editor offered a prize of 15 for an Outline of History in not more than 100 words of prose. WAS it necessary to start an Outline of History with the nebular hypothesis ? We......
An Eighteenth Century Family Correspondence
A Prime Minister and His Son. From the Correspondence of the Third Earl of Bute and of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Charles Stuart, K.B. Edited by the Hon. Mrs. E. Stuart Wortley,......
Two Tracts Of Importance Are Published This Week, The...
Consequences of Mr. Churchill, by J. Maynard Keynes (Hogarth Press), and Some Phases of Free Thought in England in the Nineteenth Century, by Lord Oxford (Lindsey Press).......