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(Continued from page 135.) The Brontes' and their Stars, by Miss Maud Margesson (Rider, 12s. 6d.), can be fully appreciated only by the specialist who has more than an amateur......
Miss Marion Cran's New Book, So Happily Named The Joy
of the Ground (Herbert Jenkins, 10s. 6d.), owes its title to a certain red periwinkle that she discovered in her garden. This plant was well known in Tudor times, and an old......
It Would Be Superfluous In These Columns To Refer To
Mr. Waley's genius. All lovers of his translations of Chinese poems and of the first three parts of The Tale of Genji, will be eager for the sequel to that Japanese masterpiece,......
Folklore Is Always Interesting But Seldom So Gracefully...
handled as in Miss Eleanor Hall's Folklore of the British Isles (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). Her chapters on such themes as " The Worship of Stones," The Worship of Trees," " Animal......
Charlotte Lowenskold. A Tale Of Modern Sweden. By Selma...
(T. Werner Laurie. 10s. 6d.) —This idyllic story by the distinguished winner of the Nobel prize for literature has the fresh flavour of wild strawberries. There is something of......
Cressida—no Mystery. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. {heinemann....
temperamentally, about the closing chapters of this novel. Some readers will like the melodramatic ending. But others (and these, in our own judgment, will be right) will feel......
" When One Speaks Of Birds As Being Adapted For
locomotion In the air," Professor Ritter observes in Animal and human Conduct (Allen and Unwin, 15s.), one thinks of " the structure of the forelimbs, of the feathers and so on.......
A Definite Attempt At Artistic Education Has Been...
the Board of Education in the recently published report of a Committee dealing with the selection of pictures for schools. Pictures were classified into three classes according......
We Have A Most Excellent Biography Of Charles Baudelaire, By
M. Francois Porche (Wishart, 10s. 6d.), distinguished alike for its humanity and lack of bias. We are shown the man Baudelaire as he really was, with his sadism and tenderness,......
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