Few People Now, Perhaps, Read James Grant's Excellent...

Romance of War, but those who do or have will recall how real and lifelike a picture it draws of the Peninsular War and ultimitely of Waterloo. Captain John Kincaid's Adventures......

To Criticize The Work Of So Great A Master Of

his subject as Professor Taylor would be presumptuous. His translation of the Timaeus ( Plato : Timaeus and Critias, Methuen, Os.) is published in deference to the suggestions......

In The Frequent Gun And A Little Fishing (philip Allen,

10s. 6d.), Mr. Patrick Chalmers gives us some thirty articles on shooting, fishing, and dogs, on the ways of keepers, sports- men, poachers and the like; Each one of these......

Some Books Of The Week

WHAT would not a historian give for an accurate and detailed. history of any English village, such as could only be given by the men and women whose names are decipherable in......

Carlyle, Says Mr. Harold .nicolson, In His Preface To Miss

Margaret Goldsmith's new book, Frederick the Great (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.), has rather spoilt the market for such subjects as the French Revolution and Frederick the Great, Carlyle......

Of All The Strange Countries In The World To-day There

is none stranger than Haiti. Surrounded by the civilizations of Europe and America, this small kingdom is ruled by negroes, and there are here mysteries as deep as any that came......

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A New Competition The Editor Offers A Prize Of Five

guineas for the most interesting postcard answering the question, " What is the first thing you remember ? " Illegible entries will be disqualified. The Editor reserves the......