Some Books Of The Week
WE shall hear more of Mr. James Laver. His Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall (Nonesuch Press) is out of print and topics may hardly be haa for fifty guineas. It is......
We Opened Mr. A. E. Coppard's Contd . Stefan (golden...
Press, 16s.) with some misgiving, but read on through the queer mad story with an increasing pleasure. Here at last, we thought, we had found one of the modern. intellectuals......
Dr. Percy Dearmer Deals With A Thorny Subject In The
Truth about Fasting (Rivingtons, 3s. 6d.), for the bulk of his book is concerned with the controversy on Fasting Communior. Glancing at the difficulties which beset the Morning......
An Article By Dame Rachel Crowdy On " Child Welfare"
for our weekly League of Nations page has had to be held over until next week owing to pressure on our space: * * * *......
A Hangman's Diary (philip Allan, 10s. 6d.) Is The Record
kept by the chief executioner of Nuremberg iii the sixteenth century of all the executions he conducted during his term of office. The Diary is, in its way, unique, but in the......
There Is Always Good Reading In The Hibbert Journal, But
the April number (Constable, 2s. 6d.) seems to us exceptionally, interesting. It is significant that the issue includes three articles on different aspects of mysticism. Dr.......
Lord Charnwood's Style Is Always One Of Rare Beauty And
restraint, and we are glad that in A Personal Conviction {Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. 6d.) he has reprinted the Epilogue to his According to St. John. Although he refrains from a......
Count Volpi, The Italian Minister Of Finance, Has Repub•...
his speech to the Italian Senate with regard to the adoption of the gold standard and the fixing of the lira exchange. It is published in French, and obtainable in Rome from the......
The Competition
Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best suggestions, in five hundred words, or less, on How to Keep Young. The closing date for this competition will be Friday,......
(" More Books Of The Week" And " General Knowledge
Competition" will be found on pages 625 and 626.)......
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