It Has Long Been Suspected That Sterne, As A Young
clergy. man in York, began his literary career by writing for a York newspaper. But Mr. Lewis Perry Curtis, in The Politicks of Laurence Sterne (Oxford University Press, 10s.),......
If Only The Great Mass Of People Who Affect To
take no Interest in politics could be reached by the method of spoon- feeding they would find excellent nourishment in Why Should I Vote—A Handbook for Electors, by Amabel and......
Some Books Of The Week
h.:the modern university a new and hybrid subject is coming to the fore, namely, political geography. Like most of the other sub-divisions of the Humanities it is woefully......
" So You've Come To The Sorrowful Islands," Is Not
an encouraging welcome, but Mr. S. G. C. Knibbs was prepared to be interested in The Savage Solomon (Seeley, Service & Co., 21s.) and has in consequence given us a readable......
" Liberalism Is Dead, Long Live Liberalism " Might Well
be the motto of the Journal de Geneve which has, like ourselves, recently held centenary celebrations. It was founded in 1826, but owing to an interregnum it has only now......
Mr. Monk Gibbon In His For Darns To Peck At
(Gollancz, Os.) is a wayside companion with a touch of innocence about him that reminds one of Barnaby Rudge. His sense of values is not that of the world at large. He loves the......
The Competition
Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best account of one or more " narrow shaves " in the experience of com- petitors or their friends. Stories should be true,......
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