This Week's Books
A STREAK of humour, a breath of that creative spirit that transmutes the leaden facts of travel into gold, runs through Tiger Trails in Southern Aldo, by Dr. Richard L. Sutton,......
Mr. J. Murray Gibbon, One Of The Best - Known Figures In
the lite c rary life of Canada, has selected and !translated a series of Canadian Folksongs- (Dent. Os.). The thirty songs chosen are not confined to the chansons that came from......
The Object Of The Confederation Internationak Des...
excellent one of bringing students together from the whole world. The Handbook of Student Travel (published at 3 Endsleigh Gardens at Is. 6d.) contains a quantity of useful......
The Editor Of The Strand Magazine Gives . Us Gooseflesh Of
surprise and admiration and horror in Stranger than Fiction (Newnes, 2s.)—" some thrills of history." Some thrills these certainly are, and every story is well told. We commend......
* * We Congratulate The Department Of Overseas Trade On
producing a full and detailed catalogue of the British Indus- tries Fair a full month before the show opens at the White City, on February 21st to March 4th. Looking through......
To America In Thirty-nine Days Is An Engaging Trifle,...
of extracts from the diary of the late Joseph Biggs, of Leicester and London, telling of a voyage he undertook in 1887, before the days of steam. The author describes "a......
There Seems No End To The Making Of Guide And
travel-books, but we have not come across any recent publication on Italy which gives one so much exact information and intelli- gent advice in portable compass as Winter in......
The Radio Times (2d. Every Friday) Is In No Need
of advertisement in these columns, but we desire to call the attention of our readers to the World-Radio supplement.: this would attract us to wireless even if we never......
Professor Radhakrishnan's Upton Lectures, Delivered At...
The Hindu View of Life, have just been published by 1V1'2ssrs. Allen and Unwin (5s.). Mr. Radha- krishnan's thesis should be studied by missionaries and others who have the high......
A Highly Intelligent And Ingeniously Prepared Educational...
sent to us by Messrs. Evans Bros : it is a monthly publication issued at Is., and entitled Pictorial Education. The number before us consists of a flexible card- board folder,......
The Golden Cockerel Press, Whose Books Are Always...
have sent us a seventeen-and-sixpenny edition of The Fables of Aesop. Letterpress and woodcuts are both delightful. The couching fox on page 40 and a picture of the washing of a......
A Competition Oen Next Competition, To The Winner Of Which
the Editor offers a £5 prize, is a very simple one and will be judged strictly by popular vote. We ask our readers to give us the names of the ten most popular characters in......
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