24 AUGUST 1901, page 16

Books.

ASIA AND EUROPE.* IT would be difficult to exaggerate the interest of this remark- able book. In it Mr. Meredith Townsend deals with some of the moot poignant problems that......

An Epidemic Of Baldness In Japan.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATORn SIR, —I think the following account of an epidemic of bald- ness in Japan may interest your readers. European women who are resident in . Japan......

Poetry.

SUMMER IN LONDON. THE smoke-pall hangs above us And the dust is in our eyes; The sun is sinking red with wrath Across the cowering skies ! From the hiss of the feet on the......