Black Jack House. By L. Allen Harker. (murray. 7s....
who appreciate quiet, dignified, old-fashioned charm will enjoy this characteristic novel by Mrs. Harker. The house of the title is one of those pleasant, double-fronted, stone......
The Publication Of Count Corti's Monumental Work On The...
excited a great deal of interest. Anyone who found himself involved in the two large volumes could hardly rest until he had finished them both. To read two such volumes,......
A Library List
MISCELLANEOUS :-The British Year Book of International Law, 1929. (Oxford University Press. 18s.)-The Female Spectator. Edited by M. Priestley. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.)-----The......
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four well-printed, handy-sized volumes, Die Langere Sammlung der Reden Gotanio Buddhos, translated into German by Karl Eugen Neumann and published by Verlag R. Piper and......
For Sidelights On English Country Life In The Seventeenth...
eighteenth century we can commend the new volume admirably edited by Mr. S. A. Peyton, of Reading University, for the Oxfordshire Record Society. The Churchwardens' Presentments......
Strange Moon. By T. S. Stribling. (heinemann. 7s....
returns in this novel to Venezuela. But the present story, unlike his Fombombo, is not a serious study of Venezuelan life, but a clever excursion in melodrama. Eugene Manners is......
General Knowledge Questions .
OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions Submitted is awarded this week to Mr. A. M. Hyamson, Government of Palestine, Immigration and Travel Section,......
Mr. William H. Terry Has Devoted A Slender Volume To
Judge Jenkins (Grant Richards and H. Toulmin, 10s. 6d.), who defied the Long Parliament and was detained in prison. The Welsh judge, who was born in 1582 and died in 1663, was......
Two Local Naturalists, Mr. N. G. Hadden And Mr. E.
W. Hendy, have done a very useful piece of work in compiling their Guide to the Natural History of Porlock and District (Taunton, Lyceum. Press, Is.). The district is unusually......
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