When The Bishop Of London Was Head Of Oxford House,
Bethnal Green, and visited the University, his spirited and homely addresses in college halls exercised a profound influence on young men. It is pleasant to recognize the old......
Some Books Of The Week
Ma. A. G. BRADLEY'S Romance of Wales (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a capital book, with just that blend of local history and folk-lore with descriptions of scenery and people that has......
The Competition
LIFE'S LITTLE MISERIES. THAT we lilce to read of other people's sufferings is a common- place. That we like it all the more when the sufferers are ordinary men like ourselves,......
The Conflict Between The Romans And Huns At The End
of the fourth century of our era centres round the stocky and sinister figure of Attila, of whom M. Brion gives us some account in his book of that name (Cassell, 12s. 6d.). We......
Most Of Those Who Take An Interest, Lightly Amateur Or
severely ornithological, in birds and bird-books, are doubtless familiar by now with the name of Raven—we intend no pun : Canon Charles E. Raven, author of In Praise of Birds,......
The Assyrian Christians, Or Nestorians, Of Northern Meso...
Kurdistan have a special interest for many English Churchmen. Their romantic story is sketched with knowledge and no little humour by the Rev. Dr. W. A. Wigram in The Assyrians......
General Sir Ian Hamilton, Writing An Introduction To...
William Marshall's Memories of Four Fronts (Benn, 21s.), observes that they are " ultra English." Unemotional they are, plain statements of objective truth, but one hopes not......
It Is Not At First Sight Obvious With How Much
tact and justice Mr. G. Wilson Knight proceeds in his essay on the symbolism of Shakespeare, Myth and Miracle (E. J. Burrow, - 2s.). Perhaps, indeed, his thesis may be......
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