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who seriously try to follow the course of world politics must be grateful to Professor Arnold J. Toynbee for the successive volumes of his Survey of International Affairs and to......

The Typography Of The Odes Of V Ielory Of Pindar

(Basil Blackwell, limited edition, £3 13s. 6d.) is admirable ; the illustrations--woodeutsby Mr. John Farleigh--are interesting as representing an almost freakish admixture of......

Messrs. Eyre And Spottiswoode Have Published A Beautiful...

of The Complete Annual (E4 4s.) decorated by Mr. Frank Adams. The title page is a typographical treat.......

As A Dispassionate Statement Of Fact, The Mandates...

Mr. Norman Bentinck, Attorney-General of Palestine (Longnuans, 15s.), could hardly be bettered. Ile shows how the Mandates came into being for the ex-German and ex- Turkish......

Sir Charles Oman Is Much To Be Congratulated On The

completion, after nearly thirty years, of his magnificent History of the Peninsular War, in a seventh volume covering the eight months from the storm of St. Sebastian to the......

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The Bible Story in Modern Art, published at a guinea by the Religious Tract Society, will make a very welcome Christmas present to any family. The text is taken from the Holy......

Miss Iris Brooke Has Followed Up Her Successful English...

of the Nineteenth Century by an equally attractive hook on English Children's Costume (Black, Os.), to which Mr. James Laver has written a delightful introduction. It is......

As Mr. J. Il Dowd Says On The Wrapper Of

his new hook, " My passion is movement, anything alive," and his drawings of children living and doing in this new book Important People (Country Life, 15s.), must have given......

Author And Artist Alike Seem To Have Enjoyed The Making

of Roads and Vagabonds (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.). In this happy and inconsequent book Mr. Kenneth Hare recalls the horsed omnibuses of his youth and so is led back to scenes......

The Medici Society Send Us This Year A Delightful Collection

of Christmas cards of varying prices. The Mantegna St. George is one of the most beautiful, and another Christmas card which will please all Londoners is the reprint of......

Christmas Gift Books Me Nonesuch Press Have Published...

a new edition of their famous Weekend Book (Os.). This edition has no longer the familiar illustrations by Mr. Albert Rutherston, but is decorated very charmingly by T. L.......