The Parallels Between The Platonic Philosophy And The...
Christ are drawn out with great skill in Mr. John S. Hoyland's The Great Forerunner (Constable, 5s.). It was the Platonic doctrine of ideas which made possible to the Greeks the......
In The Satires And Miscellanies Of Bishop Butler,...
Prof. Rene Lamar (Cambridge University Press, 15s.), we have the author of Hudibras at his most savage and cynical. For the most part they are scraps, hastily written, some or......
Many People Who Do Not Usually See The Library (h.
Milford, as. 6d.) will like to know that in the current number Mr. A. W. Pollard gives a full account, with a collotype facsimile, of the newly discovered Caxton Indulgence,......
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Those who have learned the rare charm of Chinese painting, especially in landscape and in scenes with birds and flowers, may be commended to the sumptuous new volume of Messrs.......
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Seldom is a parish history introduced to the world by a Viceroy and an Archbishop. But Lord Irwin, who owns the parish, and the Archbishop of York, who is a comparatively near......
Some Books Of The Week
DURING the past month the books most in demand at the rimes Book Club have been :—FicTiow.—The Shadow of Guy Denver, by Stephen McKenna ; Beau Ideal, by P. C. Wren ; The Female......
The Clarendon Press Offers A Pleasant Version Of Byron In
Mr. V. H. Collins's Selected Letters (4s. 6d.). Whether intended for school use or not, this neat volume is perfectly suitable for it ; and nothing could have been devised more......
M. Jean Jacques Brousson, Who Used To Be M. Anatole
France's secretary, continues his series of reminiscent volumes in Anatole France Abroad. Translated by John Pollock. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) M. Brousson is, no doubt,......
The Study Of The Attitude Of Children To Religious Ideas
has not yet been pursued in much detail. Dr. Oskar Kupky's treatise on The Religious Development of Adolescents (Macmillan, 6s. 6d.) is therefore very useful as a collection of......
It Would Take A Brave Soul To Read A Collection
of schoolboy howlers in mass : but there can be few more engaging books to dip into. In Mr. H. Cecil Hunt's anthology, Howlers (Bean, 1s. 6d.), the old classical examples are......
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