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Anyone Who Has Read The Encyclopaedic Preface To Mobrj Dick

will thereafter value every detail that he can collect, about the life of whale .fishermen_ and of :Whales themselves. - Whaling in the Antarctic, by A. G. Bennett (Blackwood,-......

Current Literature

WOrld Disarmament, by Maurice Fanshawe (League of Nations Union, 2s. 6d.), is described in the sub-title as a handbook on the reduction and limitation of armaments. Considering......

A Famous Controversy Is Reopened By Colonel C. 0. Head

in A Glance at Gallipoli (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s. 6d.). He describes a visit to the Straits and Constantinople in 1930, discusses the strategy and tactics of the campaign of......

Nothing Could Be Better Or More Interesting Than The Chapter

on the econorrile life of the Jukun-speaking - peoples of Nigeria, described by Mr. C. K. Meek in A Sudanese Kingdom (Kegan Paul, 25s.). Here we have concrete facts carefully......

Fiction

All Sorts To Make a World The Thief. By Leonid Leonov. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) The Cross of Carl. By Walter Owen. (Grant Richards. 5s.) Child : Auntie, what is a novel ? Auntie : A......

Those Who Heard Canon J. K. Motley's Wireless Talks On

the history of theology last August and September must have admired the expertise with which he gave human interest, to this somewhat formidable theme. These, and others who......