Some Books Of The Week Maim:mg Stancioff's Recollections...
Bulgarian Diplo- malist's Wife (Hutchinson, 18s.) covers a period extending from 1887 to 1915. Born a French woman of aristocratic family she went to Bulgaria as lady in waiting......
To Many People The Church Of England Is An Expression
that stands for something vague and amorphous, a useful if not very logical outgrowth of English life, more genial than Rome or Dissent, but lacking the strength that comes of......
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Any book by M. X. Marcel Boulestin about food is . a necessity to the bookshelf of a well-equipped kitchen. What Shall We Have To-day ? (Heinemann, cloth 5s., paper 8s. 6d.)......
• * * The French Novelists From The Revolution To
Proust (by Frederick C. Green, Dent, 7s. 6d.) have not much elbow- room in a volume of three hundred and fifty pages. Mr. Green marshals them with skill, and assigns to each his......
* * Dr. Eleanor Duckett, Formerly Fellow Of Girton And
now Professor of Latin in Smith College, has produced a charming book on the Latin .Writers of the Fifth Century (New York : Henry Holt). That century, which saw the collapse of......
Trained Scholarship And Intimate Local Knowledge Combine...
Reginald W. Jeffery's Thornton-le-Dale (Wakefield : West Yorkshire Printing 5s.) one of the best parish histories that we have seen. Co., Mr. Jeffery has done good work for the......
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