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A Book Of The Moment
THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA The Letters of Queen Victoria. A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence and Journal Between the Years 1862 and 1878. Edited by George Earle......
Mr. E. V. Lucas Has Written Five Booklets On Great
painters (Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Franz Hals, each 5s. Methuen.) with that easy grace and insight into essentials which always informs his - work and......
Messrs. Constable Have Published The Ninth And Tenth...
the Works of Thomas Love Peacock (2 guineas net). The " Essay on Gastronomy and Civilization " is a paper of pure delight, written in the highest of Peacock's high spirits.......
On The Subject Of Eating, We Would Mention Eating For
Perfect Health, by Mrs. Milton Powell (Lutterworth, 3s. 6c1.). She quotes Sir William Roberts saying that " one generation of scientific dietetics would produce an influence......
Wily Does Mr. Buchanan Publish Nine Pictures I Of Himself,
including a big " close-up " which would -only be justified if he were a Noyello or Valentino ? In his book, Sahara (Murray,. 21s.), there are also numerous portraits of his......
We Had Imagined That Wine-treading Was A Romantic Affair
" This year the must shall foam Round the white feet of laughing girls"— but as regards port, at any rate, the vintage is pressed (according to the illustrations in Mr. Todd' s......
This Reviewer Remembers Seeing " Kid " Lewis When He
was training at Richmond, and noticing, during the " Kid's " punching practice, that wonderful torso (especially the, shoulder muscles) to which Mr. Wignall alludes in The Sweet......
This Week's Books
Ma. Iltrxernry WARD has compiled a very interesting and valu- able volume in the privately-printed History of the Athenaeum. It is a chastening thought, as -we scan the names of......
The Competition
THE Editor offers a prize of £5 for a report, in not more than five hundred words exclusive of quotations,. upon ten " Bio- graphies for Beginners "submitted for a previous......
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