A Good Bookselling Business Which Has Been Conducted For Two
centuries in the same premises surely deserves a record . We may heartily commend, both for its subject and for its literary merit the imposing quarto on The . Oldest London......
The Fables Of ./esop Have Provided One Of The Most
popular story books of the world. Anecdotes of talking animals at once satisfy some vestigial Totemism, and give cover for satire. lEsop's tales were not only beloved and......
Some Books Of The Week
DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— FICTION :—Orlando, A Biography, by Virginia Woolf ; Silver Thorn, by Hugh. Walpole ; The......
Prince Nicholas Of Greece Is The Brother Of The Late
King Constantine ; and it was to be expected that the main part of his Political Memoirs, 1914-1917 (Hutchinson, 24s.), should be devoted to a defence of King Constantine's......
Messrs. John Lane, The Bodley Head, Have Given Us A
very handsome edition of the Memoirs of the Count de Grammont, by Count Anthony Hamilton, translated by Horace Walpole, to which they have prefixed a biographical sketch of......
There Are Still, No Doubt, Worthy People Who Feel That
they are making a personal-contribution to the work of international peace by a visit to Geneva when the League of Nations Assembly is in session. Not personal satisfaction,......
It Is Difficult Not To Suspect That The Charm And
interest of the talks between M. Paleologue and the widow of Napo- leon III. given in The Tragic Empress (Thornton Butterworth, 10s. &I.) depend more upon the Ambassador than......
The Competition
CIIIIIBTMAS cannot always be spent in the traditional way. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best description, in not more than seven hundred words, of a......
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