" Ave Atquc :ale ! " Is Our Sadly Appropriate
exclamation on receiving the hundredth quarterly number of the Scottish Historical Review and finding that it is to be the last (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie, 4s.). For the review,......
It Is Not True That The Quarterly Review " Snuffed
out Keats with its article on Endymion, but it is well known that the Quarterly under Lockhart and Croker was uncom- monly plain-spoken in its criticism. We are reminded of......
The Topography Of Old London Is A Subject That Interests
many people, but it has been confused by a succession of careless writers, each copying his predecessor's mistakes. However, a few serious students, like Mr. Walter G. Bell and......
Three Parts Of Professor Fay's Great Britain From Adam Smith
to the Present Day (Longman's, 12s. 6d.) are devoted to Finance from Walpole to Joseph Chamberlain, to a discussion of the growth within the period of trade and means of......
Of All Our Learned Periodicals, The Bulletin Of The John
Rylands Library is perhaps the most astonishing, whether for its variety or for its cheapness—at half-a-crown for three hundred pages. The July issue begins with a delightful......
A New Competition The Editor Offers A Prize Of Three
guineas for the best descrip- tion in verse of a popular English seaside resort at midday on August Bank Holiday. Entries should not be more than sixteen lines in length, but......
We Suspect That Mr. Robert Nicholls's Object In Writing...
the Yew (Seeker, 5s.) was rather that of an artist interested in the rhythms and balanced phrases of an eightftentikeeptury prose style than of a moralist desirous of -thrusting......
John C. Fremont Explored In The Days When Indians Were
still the enemies of all white men, making descents on their camps and collecting their scalps, and Mr. Alan Nevins tells the story well in Fremont : The West's Greatest......
Some Books Of The Week
DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :—Ficriox : Swan Song, by John Galsworthy ; The Runagates Club, by John Buchan ; We Forget......
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