The Market Is Flooded With Books On Crime, Criminals And
their romantic or pseudo-romantic histories. If the public is not yet satiated, it will find further sustenance of this sort in Mr. Charles Kingston's Rogues and Adventuresses......
We Have Received The First Number Of A New Art
magazine, Pantheon, edited by Dr. 0. von Falke of Berlin and Professor Mayer of Munich, where it is published by Messrs. Bruckmann (86 marks yearly). The many superb......
Some News Is Never Stale ; Indeed, It Improves With
keeping. The writer of Some Letters from a Man of No Importance, 1895-1914 (Cape, 10s. 6d.), found these communications had been preserved over a period of twenty years by the......
It Is Curious That M. Mantoux's Excellent Book On The
English Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (revised edition translated by Marjorie Vernon (Jonathan Cape, 16s.) has only. now, after twenty years, found an English......
Having Noted That Francis Joseph : Emperor Of Austria, King
of Hungary (Putnam's. 21s.) is the first book written in English to give a connected account of the career of that cold-blooded pedant who assisted in the fate-fraught,......
A Useful Book Of Hints To Anglers Is The Pike
Fisher, by Mr. Edward F. Spence (Black, Os.). Mr. Spence tells how to equip yourself, where to fish, all the ways of fishing for pike—how to strike your pike, how to play your......
Through The Heart Of , Afghanistan (faber And Gwyer,...
an excellently illustrated and very pleasantly written travel- book (a little over-sentimental at times, perhaps), which gives an admirable picture of Afghan life and scenery.......
Some Books Of The Week
- Duango the past month the books most in demand at "The Times Book Club " have been :— Ftertoic Wintersmoon, by Hugh. Walpole ;., The. Old Tree Blossoms, by Ernest Raymond ;......
General Knowledge Questions And Competitions
THESE features will in future be found towards the end of the Spectator : this week at page 478.......
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