20 JULY 1929, page 42

More Than Fifty Regional Advisory Committees Are Now At Work

in various pait's of the country, Mr. Davidge tells in the Regional Planning RePore for South Bucks and Thames- side (from Hon. Sec., Denmark House, Windsor Road, Slough, 10s.......

There Has Recently Been A Tendency, Noticeable Among...

multiple retail shops, to realize that work as a junior in these institutions is not the best training for the more re- sponsible posts, which have accordingly to be filled from......

Mr. Ellis, An Australian, Tells The Story Of An Overland

journey by car from London to Delhi in an attempt to reach Australia with a maximum of 800 miles of sea travel. He says that the monsoon rains made it impossible for him to......

Two Books Dealing With The War And With Captivity During

the War are Combed Out, by Mr. F. A. Voigt (Cape, 3s. 6d.), and The Further Side of No Man's Land, by Mr. V. W. W. S. Purcell (Dent, 7s. 6d.). The former is a reprint in the......

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(Continued from page 99.) Nigeria is now an important and flourishing colony, four times as large as Great Britain, with a population of over eighteen millions. Yet our official......

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Many people who collect Toby jugs and the like will be interested in Mr. Herbert Read's pioneer treatise on Stafford- shire Pottery Figures (Duckworth, 42s.). Mr. Read has......

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Mr. T. F. Powys, in his Interpretation of Genesis (Chatto and Windus, 15s.), subjects his material to a drastic simplification. This is a common way with interpreters, and one......

. We Welcome The Publication In This Country, In One

handsome volume running to nine hundred pages, of Mr. Cyril E. Robinson's England : A History of British Progress from the Earliest Ages to the Present Day (Methuen, 21s.). The......