* * * * It Is A Pleasure To Find
an English student of Racine courageous enough to publish a translation of his delightful comedy Les Plaideurs—and a translation in rhymed anapaests which reproduce much more......
Owing To Pressure On Our Space Our Weekly League Of
Nations article is held over this week. Our Geneva corre- spondent will send us his usual resume of events from the headquarters of the League for September 8th. * * * *......
Mr. E. V. Lucas Has Composed A Most Intelligent Little
guide-book to Paris in Introducing Paris (Methuen, 2s. 6d.). He shows himself a strong but discerning Francophile, and there are few visitors who will not appreciate what Mr.......
Some Books Of The Week
A SHORT line of houses, just over a mile long, links Edinburgh Castle with the Abbey and House of Holyrood—a length which Lockhart (Scott's Lockhart) thought the most " im-......
Mr. Lange, The Warden Of A Most Attractive And Charac-
teristically Danish school for smallholders at Odense, writes A Danish View of British Farming (John Lane, 1s.) to emphasize two definite and distinct points. Negatively, he......
We Regret That By An Unfortunate Error We Described The
author of Hudibras as Bishop Butler in a note last week. The first Samuel Butler was far from being a Bishop * * *......
The Roumanians Pride Themselves On Their Latin Language...
while unfriendly critics have maintained that they are anything but a Latin race. To the highly contro- versial literature on this subject the late Professor Vasile Parvan's......
Golfers Who Know Hoylake Will Be Interested In West Kirby
and Hilbre : a Parochial History by Mr. John Brownhill (Liverpool : Henry Young and Sons, 10s. 6d.), for the famous links are in the quiet Wirral parish and Mr. Bernard Darwin......
A Delightful And Original Child's Magazine Is John...
published monthly from 33 Wust Forty-ninth Street, New York City, at 40 cents a copy, or £1 a year to England. It has an individual note which is rather rare in these days of......
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