As It Has Now Become An Angling Classic, It Is
necessary- only to welcome the appearance of a new edition of Lord Grey's Fly Fishing (Dent, 10s. 6d.) and to note that it contains two fresh chapters, one on Spring......
It Must Have Been A Great Pleasure To Mr. R.
Thurston Hopkins to write his charmingly illustrated 914 Watermills and Windmills (Philip Allan, 16s.), and though it is somewhat of a specialist's book, saying almost all there......
Some Books Of The Week
kVE seem to be moving towards an age when each of the different sections of the social and political world requires its own specially prepared book-food. The Indian Crisis, by......
Major C. Court Treatt, In The Preface To His Old
of the Beaten Track (Hutchinson, 18s.) says that most African hunting books " have not been written by the real African hunter." But this surely does not hold for South Africa,......
Mr. Brimlcy Johnson, That True Lover Of .lane Austen (dent,
15s.) has certainly absorbed something of her pre-eminent gift of readability—which is something apart from her genius. Janeites " will not be able to put this latest book of......
Mr. Chesterton Has Added To His Reputation.' These Witty...
essays, entitled Come to Think of It (Methuen, 6s.) are a delight to read. They have a quality of detachment often wanting in his work. The spirit of controversy is hardly to be......
The Competition
Youn cousin and his wife, who have lived all their lives in Australia, want to spend one month of next year in Great Britain. They ask your advice as to when they should come,......
A New Competition
IN an earlier England each trade had its distinctive name and men were blacksmiths, pedlars, postillions, etc. A 'rile of two guineas is offered for the best distinctive English......
("more Books Of Ile Week" And "general Knowledge Coot-...
will be found on pages 606 and 609.)......
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