22 FEBRUARY 1930, page 22

The Many Friends Of The Late Col . Aubrey Herbert

will welcome a new edition of Mons, Anzac and Kut (Hutchinson, 7s: 6d.), with a preface by Mr. Desmond MacCarthy. The latter pays tribute to the wonderful charity and courtesy......

The Competition

EVERYBODY is talking about the Italian Pictures. The Editor therefore offers a prize for the most entertaining or illuminating comment on them, or anecdote referring to them,......

Some Books Of The Week

BROADCAST sermons came in for some severe criticisms last week in the Convocation of Canterbury on the ground that they were indefinite and had to be trimmed. to suit all......

The King As Life-giver And Creator, Warden Of A People's

health and prosperity, is characteristic of many early civiliza- tions. Professor Elliot Smith - has already shown hoW gold has also a supernatural glamour for early man, and in......

Mrs. Philip Martineau Can Remember The Time, Before Golf And

'motors, when fashionable people rode in the Park either between eleven and one, or between five and seven. The men wore tightly fitting trousers, black coats and silk hats, and......

We Have Always Felt The Need For A- Succinct And

readable account of the peculiarities of English University life for the benefit of the enquiring foreigner. Degenerate Oxford ? by Terence Greenidge (Chapman and Hall, 7s. 6d.)......

• * * * (the Attention Of Our Readers Is

drawn to the special Education . Section accompanying the book reviews this week. General Knowledge Questions will be found on page 291.)......

A Man Who Has Known Pollock Of The Saturday And

Palmer the Orientalist ; who has been on friendly terms with Leighton, Millais, Holman Hunt and Corney Grain ; who has soldiered in India and through the Boer War ; who knows......