Walter Pater. By Ferris Greenslet. (w. Heinemann. Ls. 6d....
—Mr. Greenslet, possibly helped by the "spatial distance" which, he thinks, "may afford something of the perspective usually given only by remoteness in time," has supplied us......
Style In Furniture.
Style in Furniture. By R. Davis Benn. (Longman and Co. 21s. net.)—Mr. Benn goes back to the seventeenth century, taking also a glance at Elizabethan work dating from a still......
The Princess Passes. By C. N. And A. M. Williamson.
(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The joint-authors of this book have again followed their peculiar prescription for novel-writing. They take a motor- car, an illustrated guide-book, and a......
D'ordel's Pantechnicon : An Universal Directory Of The...
of Manufacturing Illustrated Magazines. By Prometheus D'Ordel, Esq., Gent. Edited by Mark Sykes and Edward Sandars. (Bickers and Sons. ls.)—This admirable skit on the cheap......
The Florentine Chair : A Comic Idyll. By St. John
Lucas. (Sidney Appleton. 3s. 6d.)—Readers of the Spectator have made acquaintance with Mr. St. John Lucas as a poet. Of his skill in threading the paths of fantastic comedy The......
[under This Heading We Notice Such Books Of The Week
as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Burns Country. By Charles S. Dougall, M.A. (A. and C. Black. 6s.)—This is the third of a series in which "The Scott......
Porcelain. By Edward Dillon, M.a. (methuen And Co- 25s....
may quote from the preface a sentence which has much significance, as showing the point of view from which Mr. Dillon regards his subject. " It has been the aim of the writer to......
Sea Puritans. By Frank T. Bullen. (hodder And Stoughton....
the date of this story is also the seventeenth century, its atmosphere of sea breezes and Puritanism is very different from that of the lurid tale of witchcraft which we have......
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