The Hand-produced Book. By David Diringer. (hutchinson....
Alphabet, published a few years ago, Dr. Diringer 's new book is a remarkable work of synthetic scholarship, a history of " the book " from scratchings in prehistoric caves to......
Edith Wharton. By Blake Nevius. (cam- Bridge University...
PAINSTAKING account of Edith Wharton's writing (not her life). Edith Wharton is such a good writer, and so stupidly neglected, that any criticism is better than none, and there......
Beyond Horizons. By Carleton Mitchell (william Kimber....
travel; it would be interesting to know how many of them are published in A year. Mr. Mitchell, however, most acceptably differs from the usual mixture by writing about the sea......
The Human Side Of Chess. By Fria Reinfeld. (faber. 18s.)
THREE chess books, all different, each very good in its way. The success of Mr. du Mont's previous book, 200 Miniature Games of Chess, has encouraged him and his publisher to......
Things I Don't Remember. By Jeanne De Casalis....
6d.) Without Veils. By Sewell Stokes. (Peter Davies. 15s.) THIS lightweight—featherweight, I might almost say—collection of stories by Jeanne de Casalis shows an actress's eye......
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