Current Literature
WE do not know what will be the feelings of our Scottish readers when they find in Mr. Clennell Wilkinson's The English Adventurers (Longman, 9s. fid.) James Bruce of Abyssinian......
Mr. Douglas Gordon's Very Pleasant Dartmoor In All Its Moods
(Murray, 9s.) has something to say about the human dwellers on the moor—their customs, land-tenures and beliefs in white magic, for example—but. much more about its wild......
Having Read Her Previous Book With Interest, We Opened...
David-Neel's new book with pleasant anticipations. With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet (The Bodley Head, 15s.) both entertains and disappoints. An introduction by Dr. A.......
India In Crisis, By Arthur Duncan (putnam, 5s.) Repre- Sents
a moderate British point of view. Its author seems to hold that the Simon Report 'should be imple- mented. " Volume I is a masterly survey of a colossal problem. It is perhaps......
The Second Volume Of Major Gerald Burrard's The Modern...
(Jenkins, 15s.) deals principally and exhaustively with the problem of the cartridge. This topic involvefi excursions into -the chemical composition of powders and various......
Travel
We publish on this page articles and notes whicb ma!, help o:Ur readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents who have visited......
Fiction
Tim -Hidden Child. By Franz Werfel. Translated by Geoffrey -Dunlop. (Jarrolds. 78. 6d.) MORE and more as the novel grows older is it clear that if it is to be a work of art it......
Reference Books
BUILDING SOCIETIES' YEAR BOOK, 1931. (Reed and CO., 37 Cursitor Street, E.C. 4. 7s. 6d.) EVERYDAY GARDENING. By .1. Coutts. (Ward, Lock. Is. 6d.) THE CHINA YEAR Boox, 1931.......
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