Mr. E. B. Poland Has Produced In The Friars In

Sussex, (Combridges, Hove, Sussex, 12s.) a useful and interesting con- tribution to local history. He has gathered and arranged all the surviving records of the Franciscan,......

Some Books Of The Week

Goon works do not always make good reading. The Diaries of Mary Countess of Meath, edited by her husband (Hutchinson, 21s.), are a mere history of good works and would seem dull......

Herr Fiilop-miller Has Collected Material From Numerous...

great diligence, and in Der Heilige Teufel (Grethlein, Leipzig) he gives a true picture— historical and psychological—of Rasputin and the Russian Imperial family The reader is......

The Rich Vein Of Mr. Stephen Leacock's Humour Seems To

have become exhausted in Short Circuits (Lane, 7s. 6d.). But even the cleverest writer cannot be funny all the time, and we shall buy his next book with hardly diminished......

Modern Research Tends To Upset Many A Cherished Ideal. One

of the most remarkable is that of the man whom we have all revered as the discoverer of the New World, the intrepid sailor who brought the wealth of the Indies into the coffers......

We Are Glad To Meet A Second Edition Of The

Way of a Trout with a Fly (Black, 7s. 6d.), by Mr. Skues, orthodox apostle of the pure milk of the dry-fly word, which appears side by side with Major Kenneth Dawson's Salmon......

Bench And Bar In The Saddle, By Colonel C. P.

Hawkes (Nash, 18s.), is a difficult book to review. To describe it one can do no better than quote the alluring subtitle : " A Book of Gossips, Records, and Impressions of Races......

Professor Bassett Is An American Who Has Visited Geneva At

least once and examined the League at work with an objective but sympathetic eye. His book, The League of Nations (Longman, 15s.), however, is obviously based in the main on......

In His Preface To Sir Arnold Wilson's Scholarly Persian Gulf

(Clarendon Press, 12s. fid.), Mr. Amery strikes an optimistic note, which is accentuated in the book itself. It is a page of history of which we may be proud. Our influence in......

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