The Projected Barrage At Lake Tana, By Throwing Abyssinia...
the limelight, invites such books as Africa's Last Empire, by Herman Norden (Witherby, 15s.). It is natural that the public should want to know more about a country which is......
" Scotland," Wrote Mr. G. M. Thomson, " Is A
victory for Celtic civilization," and that is very much the opinion of Mr. Donald A. Mackenzie, whose Scotland : The Ancient Kingdom (Blackie, 155.) brings the history of that......
Some Books Of The Week
NON-FICTION :—Confessions and Impressions, by Ethel Mannin ; Lord Balfour, A Memory, by Sir Ian Malcolm ; My Memoirs, by Sir Frank Benson ; Northcliffe, by Hamilton Fyfe ;......
It Is Seldom That A Trained Historian With Experience In
wider spheres cares to treat of Highland feuds, so that Miss A. A. W. Ramsay's very able study of the MacGregors, The Arrow of Glenlyon (Murray, 6s.) is novel and welcome. Miss......
As A Piece Of Passionate And Nerve-racking Catharsis,...
autobiography, Escapade (Cape, 7s. 6d.) has un- deniable merits, although the same tendency to over-writing and hysteria, which exasperated one in her long novel, The Wave, is......
The Ways Of Y Este:day, By A. M. W. Stirling
(Thornton Butterworth, 18s.), were a West Country family of clergy, soldiers and merchants. " From the reign of Charles their history may be traced in undoubted and unbroken......
The Competition
TnE Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the best story of not more than two hundred words illustrating local beliefs and superstition; current in the British Isles. The......
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