During The Past Month The Books Most In Demand At
the Times Book Club have been :- Nox-FICTION.-Green Hell, by Julian Duguid • First Athenian Memories, by Compton Mackenzie ; My First Fifty Years, by Paul Poiret ; The Life and......
General Knowledge Questions Our Weekly Prize Of One...
the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Moeller, Bernal-cue, Altos, Paraguay, S. America, for the following ;- Questions on Historical Characters Of......
* * * Several Good Books Have Been Written About
Dorset, especially in connexion with Thomas Hardy's novels. But there is plenty of room for Mr. J. H. Wade's compact and intelligently planned Ramble,: in Dorset (Methuen, 7s.......
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Now that the Budget is about to be opened, Mr. H. A. Silverman's cotnpact and dispassionate treatise on Taxation : its Incidence and E f fects (Macmillan, 7s. 6d.) appears......
The Annual Report Of The Scottish Society For The Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (19 Melville Street, Edinburgh) is, as usual, full of interesting information. The Duchess of Portland writes a foreword summarising the various ways in......
" London (sang Dunbar) Thou Art Of Townes A-per-se," And
in our day very notably A-per-se in the number and variety of books that are written about it. The latest member of the choir of praise is Mr. Alan Ivimey's The Romance of......
A Library List
REFERENCE BOORS :-The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence for 1931. (Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1 New Street Square, E.C. 4. £3) Dod's Peerage, 1931 and Dod's......