Mathilde Laetitia, Wilhelmina Was The Second Child And...
of Jerome Bonaparte, Xing of Westphalia, and her youth was spent in those stormy days when the Bonaparte family were welcome guests in no country in Europe, when polities were......
Fiction.
ELTHAM HOUSE.* Mae. WA.R.D'ES new book deals with divorce. It is the story of the "discomfiture at the bands of circumstance" of an essentially good woman who has been led by a......
Some Of Miss Lilian Gask's True Stories About Horses (george
G. Harrap and Co., 3e. 6d. net) are-almost incredible, and all are gently sentimental. But they are pleasantly written, and the illustrations, by Mr. Patten Wilson, are spirited......
Readable Novels.—little Hearts. By Marjorie J. C....
Co. 6s.)—A romance of the eighteenth century. Miss Piathall writes well, with a pleasant fancy.—The Bronze Eagle. By Baroness Orczy. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—The hero was an......
The Subject Of Egyptian Architecture Is Usually Treated...
of two ways—either it forms an introductory chapter to a general history of architecture, or it is scattered, in a dis- connected fashion, throughout a book on Egyptian art. Mr.......
Mademoiselle Ixe Shared The Difficulties Of Most First...
it journeyed from publisher to publisher, until "the very appearance of the manuscript . . . growing torn and dilapidated, was enough to condemn it" ; at last Mr. Fisher Unwin......
The Victorians. By /tata Syrett. (t. Fisher Unwin. 6s.) —if
it is true that all historical novels should be written from the point of view of the characters concerned, it is especially true of novels which deal with the mid-Victorian......
We Regret To Note The Recent Death Of M. Jean
Henri Fabre. His life was spent in industry and determination, his work was the very last word in specialism, his reward was that of completion and acknowledged authority.......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Not i ce In this column (loss 'sot I3ocossos.4 preclude subtle von! revisu.] Sir Gaston Maspero's collection of Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt has been through four editions......
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