Current Literature
BRIGADIER-GENERAL C. BA.LLARD'S Smith-Dorrien (Constable 15s.) is well worth reading, both as a memoir of that able and much respected soldier and also as a defence of his......
Dull Must Be The Imagination Of Anyone Who Has Not
felt the fascination of Roads. Because they lead somewhere, because they represent intelligence and industry, because they are an index-number, as it were, of civilization, they......
Here Is A Book Of Short Stories Which Are Quite
unlike any other animal stories we have ever read. In Dwellers of the Silences (Chapman and Hall Ltd., 7s. 6d.) Mr. Alexander - Sprunt writes his stories purely from the point......
The Rev. Dr. Robert H. Murray's Edmund Burke (oxford...
Press, 15s.) is a serious attempt to supply the full biography which has long been needed of that remarkable man. He clears up some of the obscure points in Burke's life ; he is......
* * * * No Book About Boxing, If It
recall the great battles of old, can possibly be dull. The plan of Lord Knebworth's Boxing : A Guide to Modern Methods (Seeley, Service and Co. ; Lonsdale Library, 12s.......
In A Sixpenny Pamphlet, The Crisis, By Ernest Bevin And
C. D. H. Cole (The New Statesman and Nation), we have a lucid explanation of why we were forced off the gold standard, and of what it cost us to remain on so long. It is shown......
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