Professor Borenius And His Students At University College...
a notable series of monographs on English mediaeval art. Following Mr. Whaite's study of paintings of St. Christopher we now have English Mediaeval Enamels by M. Chamot, and The......
A Famous Mediaeval Author Is Admirably Described In Pro-...
F. S. Shears' Froissart : Chronicler and Poet (Routledge, 10s. 6d.). It is curious that this should be Froissart's first English biography, for he knew our country well and......
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An attractive pamphlet printed in Stockholm contains re- productions of a gallery of old and modern pictures with a commentary by Mr. R. Hoppe of the Swedish National Museum.......
[we Regret That The Price Of Captain Stair Gillon's Book,
The R.O.S.B. in the Great War (Nelson), reviewed in last week's Spectator, was given as 21s. It should have been 10s.]......
Whatever May Be The View Of The Experts, Mrs. E.
M. Whishaw's Atlantis in Andalucia (Rider, 15s.) makes a fascinating contribution' to the lore of the lost continent. Mrs. Whishaw has spent the best part of a long life in......
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reminiscences of high colonial officials are apt to be trivial or boring. Not so Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago, by Alfred P. Maudsley (Routledge, 10s. 6d.).' The author is......
Miss Margaret A. Murray's New Book On Egyptian Sculpture...
15s.) is just what has long been needed by those who are interested in this great province of ancient art but are not experts. Miss Murray, as Reader in Egyptology at University......
Mr. Arthur Birnie's Courageous Attempt At An Economic...
Europe, . 1760-1930 (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) deserves commendation because it is coming to be realized that our commercial and industrial troubles are not peculiar to England but......
Answers To Questions On Surtees' Works
1. (a) Plain or Ringlets. (b) Mr. Jovey Jessop.-2. Billy Pringle, the hero in Ask Mamma.-3. The members of " The Goose and Dumpling Hunt " (Hatobuck Grange).-4. Facey Rom- ford......
The Late Professor H. W. C. Davis, Who Died Prematurely
in 1928, had departed from the usual practice of Regius Pro- fessors at Oxford by lecturing on the outlines of European history instead of taking some special subject like the......
As There Are Still Some People Who Regard Sir Thomas
More as an early apostle of Communism, Mr. W. E. Campbell's thoughtful little book on More's Utopia and his Social Teaching ,(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s. 6d.) deserves notice as......
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