Sir Charles Sedley Wrote Half-a-dozen Of The Most Simple And
charming Restoration lyrics ; lyrics of such clearness and grace that we still wonder how they were done, what is the secret of their beauty. Ile wrote, too, a number of other......
Lady Pentland's Attractive Memoir Of Her Husband, The...
John Sinclair, Lord Pentland, G.C.S.I. (Methuen, 10s. 6d.), recalls that earnest and strenuous Liberal politician whom Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman made Secretary for Scotland......
The Double Image. By I. R. G. Hart. (bean. 7s.
6d. )— This likeable story is described as a " murder thriller " ; but readers who seek a shudder in it will be dis- appointed. Before the principal characters meet, the murder......
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An invaluable little book for the schoolroom is Teachers and World Peace (League of Nations Union, 6d.), and we wish it could also find its way into every family in Great......
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(Continued from page 287.) In the welter of well-intentioned advice now being offered to motorists on every hand, there lies the possible danger of over-emphasis on " dos " and......
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The appearance of Common Colds : Causes and Preventive Measures, by Dr. Leonard Hill and Mr. Mark Clement (Heine- mann, 7s. 6d.), is very timely, and the book should be assured......
Cork The Conqueror. By Jocelyn C. Lea. (jarrold's. 7s....
Hiram P. Cork and his motor car fell over the seabank upon that " l'il English wild rosebud," Evelyn Waterlogge, he initiated a wild farce of metamorphosis for her stately Old......
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We congratulate Mr. C. G. Grey most cordially on All the World's Aircraft 1928 (Sampson Low, 2 gns.), but we doubt whether he could confirm by statistics his 8laim in the......
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