The Volume Of Memories Which The Archbishop A Wales Has
written (Murray, 12s.) will be read with keen interest by Churchmen and Nonconformists alike. The venerable prelate, now in his eightieth year, was the protagonist of the Church......
The Title Of Mr. W. J. Lawrence's Work, The Physical
Con- ditions of the Elizabethan Public Playhouse (Humphrey Milford and the Harvard University Press, 7s. 6d.), sufficiently explains its contents. It is a highly technical book,......
A New Competition
TILE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best article of not more than seven hundred words on "New Year Resolutions." All contributions must be sent in by Monday,......
Mrs. Philip Martineau Has Written A Very Pleasant Book In
Caviare to Candy (Cobden Sanderson, 7s. .6d.). There are menus here from all parts of the world, and the first chapter is entitled "Cooks, Mistresses and Imagination." She......
The Most Interesting Of The " Leaves " Which Make
up this entirely sincere autobiography, Leaves from My Life, by Sir Herbert Barker (Hutchinson and Co., 21s.), reproduces the portrait of the author by Mr. Augustus......
Ceylon Past And Present (hurst And Blackett, Illustrated,...
Major Enriquez, furnishes, in the somewhat ugly formalism of 416 numbered paragraphs, a digested account of the geology, human history, zoology (especially of butterflies), and......
An Old Subscriber In Belfast, Mr. David E. Lowry, Sends
an Interesting booklet on the Norsemen and Danes of Strangford Lough, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History Society (Belfast : John Adams. is. 6d.). Few......
Dr. Haden Guest Writes With An Inside Knowledge Of The
Labour Movement, and in Where is Labour Going? (Cape, 5s.) tells us very clearly and forcibly how the extremists of his late party are ruining it. Its practical incapacity will......
Those Extraordinarily Interesting Glands, The Endocrines,...
to the body have opened up a new world in medical practice, are comprehensibly dealt with by Dr. Brown in The Endocrines (Consta ble. 7s. &U. The book is too technical for......
Short Story Competition
WE have pleasure in announcing a somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers who have a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a prize of twenty guineas for trie......
Some Books Of The Week
CONTROVERSY will always rage—lap, rather—round the • question of a genius's earliest literary works, whether they should be raked up and published or not ; and admirers of De......
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