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English Masques. With an Introduction by H. A. Evans: (Mackie. 2s.) Texan is nothing in this book on English Masques to warn the reader that it is not a new book, but a reprint......

This Week's Books

THE Golden Cockerel Press have reprinted The Apology of Colley Cibber. The interest in the theatre is probably more personal and keen to-day than it has been for many years, and......

Mr. Robert Blatchford Has Written A Very Small Book On

English. Prose and How to Write It (Methuen). It contains some wholesome advice to the very inexperienced, and none of it can be harmful. " As a writer," he says, " you will......

Messrs. Harrap - Are Issuing A New Edition Of Shakespear E

plays, The Readers' Shakespeare, edited by Dr. G. B. Harrison and Mr. F. H. Pritchard, of which The Merchant of Venice, Henry V., and Twelfth Night have appeared. In this series......

Messrs. Methuen Publish A Very Pleasantly Informal And...

to Oxford in Oxford Renowned, by L. Rice.. Oxley.......

A New Competition

THE EDITOR OFFERS TWO PRIZES OF £10 EACH, THE FIRST FOR AN INSCRIPTION FOR A SUNDIAL IN PROSE OR VERSE, THE SECOND FOR AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN IN FOUR LINES OF VERSE. RULES FOR......