Professor Duncan's Astronomy (harper, 12s. (3d.) Is A...
some interesting and some diverting passages. All who saw the total eclipse as ghostily its shadow-bands flickered across the white snows of eastern America in January, 1925 (as......
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Messrs. Stanley Paul send us . The Practical Chess Player's Handbook for 8s. ad. There is an excellent introduction and a number of games by such heroes of an elder day as......
Anthologies Of Verse, Provided Their Aim Is In Some Measure
0 give us new lamps for old and not merely to present a laphazard collection of the compiler's favourites, are always %defame, and the late Esme J. Howard's 'Music in the Poets......
This Week's Books
m i . J. TAYLOR PRIMIE undoubtedly has a weighty case to state in his The Cause of Economic and Social Unrest (with the alluring sub-title of " How to Reduce Income Tax I to is.......
The April Officers Training Corps Gazette (ad. From 13 Queen
Anne's Gate, S.W. 1) contains some good articles. We notice an extract from a letter of the Master of Sempill o the Press, stating that the Royal Air Force in Iraq has wed the......
Mr. Harrison, The Librarian Of York Minster, Is Well...
to write a compact history and description of York Minster (Methuen. Os.). His book, uniform in style with Messrs. Methuen's familiar and invaluable " Little Guides," is both......
Result Of The Competition
uE object of a publisher's book notice, generally written a the wrapper, is to attract the attention of the public, and ve a fair but arresting description of the contents. The......
The New Competition
THE editor offers a prize of £5 for a list of the eight foremost poets of English literature and another list of the four best living poets. The competitor whose two lists come......