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Some Books Of The Week

IF a censor of books should ever be inflicted upon us, one of his first duties should surely be to limit the output of antholo- g ies. No book seems easier to make than a......

It Is Impossible To Read Mr. Christopher Hussey's Tait...

: A Sculptor of Youth (Country Life, 25s.) without sharing his enthusiasm. He does not claim for McKenzie's art that it possesses the specialized aesthetic significance of some......

• Miss Anna M. Berry Admirably Realizes Her Purpose Is

Animals in Art (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.). She has chosen a limited domain of art, animal paintings, and sculpture, and keeping strictly within it has illustrated its......

Mr. Arthur E. Preston's The Church And Parish Of St.

Nicholas Abingdon (Oxford University Press, 21s.) is a model of what scholarly research and local patriotism can produce. It is all the more valuable because the church,......

Whatever View Our Own Theological Outlook Inclines Us To...

of its significance, there is no doubt that a keen curiosity now prevails concerning the practices and experiences of " personal religion." The modern hostility to " dogma "......

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The Air Traveller's Guide To Europe (duckworth, 10s.) K A

fascinating volume. Captain Norman Macmillan not only gives all the information necessary to those who are already air-minded, but he also describes some of the most interesting......

The Competition

IN his Country Life article of November 30th, Sin W. BEACH Triomts suggested that " what we want is really some little rhyme that will be the motto of the tidiers." We,......