White Shadows In The South Seas. By Frederick O'brien....
Laurie. 25s. net.)—The Marquesas have fascinated many a traveller. Mr. O'Brien, who describes the islands and their people in this attractive and well-illustrated, book, came......
The Greek 'strain In English Literature. By Professor...
(English Association. la.)—In this address Professor Burnet illustrates - the value of Greek studies by discussing Shakespeare's lines on music, beginning :— " There's not the......
Buckinghamshire And Berkshire. Painted By Sutton Palmer....
E. Milton. (A. and C. Black. 25s. net..)— Mr. Palmer's sixty careful drawings, reproduced in colour, recall pleasantly some of the most famous houses and views in the Home......
It Is A Pleasure To Note The Reappearance Of The
Royal Cruising . Club Journal. The new number is not filled with logs of cruises by members of the Club, as the pre-war Journals used to be, but it is nevertheless an extremely......
Automatic Pistols. By Captain Hugh B. C. Pollard. (sir Isaac
Pitman and Sons. Cs. net.)—Captain Pollard has supple- mented his well-known book on the revolver by this systematic, little essay on the automatic pistol. We are not surprised......
The Geographical Section Of The General Staff Has Just...
a sixpenny Catalogue of Maps, with many• index-maps, which will surprise most people by its comprehensiveness, Before the war the War Office cartographers were improving......
Readers Of The Late Professor Hume Brown's Books On Scottish
history may be glad to know of a graceful memoir of the his- torian written by his friend Dr. George Macdonald and re- printed from the Proceedings of the British Academy (H.......
Worm Or Riesanterroe.—the Literary Who's Who For 1920...
6th net) is the old Literary Year Book in a new form. Most of the space is now given to short biographies of authors and journalists, but some of the legal information that is......
British Violin Makers. By The Rev. W. Meredith Morris. (r.
Scott. 25s. net.)—This is a new edition of a book long out of print. The author has revised it and brought his annotated list of makers up to date. He is an enthusiast for his......
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