The Bon Vivant's Companion, By Professor Jerry Thomas...
6d.) is edited, with an introduction, by Mr. Asbury, who has collected a number of entertaining illustrations for it. The introduction is a lament for the past glories of wet......
Fiction
Dragons, Cossacks, Whales, and Detectives The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill. By Max Beerbohm. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) The Cluny Problem. By A. Fielding. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) IF Mr. Max......
" We Live In A Chocolate Age," Says Lord Riddell
in his entertaining and instructive article which appears in the Bicentenary Number of Fry's Works Magazine (2s.), " Every working day Messrs. Fry turn out on an average......
: From Peter The Great To The Time Of Catherine The
Great . is . perhaPs the most romantic period of Russian history, and Mr. Poliakoff has chosen a justifiably romantic title for his ' story of this period. When Lovers Ruled......
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(Continued from page 821.) - Since nobody can write of dogs so well as -Mr. Patrick Chalmers and since nobody can paint them so well as Mr. Cecil Aldin, their joint book, A......
In Religious Fanaticism (faber And Gwyer, 12s. Ad.) Mrs. Ray
Strachey gives an account of the various religious sects and queer communal experiments which sprang up in America during the nineteenth century. There was often a great......
Professor Elton Has Done Much To Bring To Life The
history of English letters. His critical faculty is not only wide and steady ; it is also vigorous. In the Survey of English Liter- ature, 1730-1780 (Arnold, 32s.) he gives a......
A Library List
thsToity :—Early English Intercourse with Burma (1587- 1743). By D. G. E. Hall. (Longmans. 12s. 6d.))— A History of the Jews in England. By Albert M. Hyamson. (Methuen,_ _10s.......
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