Mr. I'anson Fausset Has Shown A Wide Range Of Choice
in his literary biographies. In each one, however, he has tried in the same way to show the quarrelling motives under- lying the man of whom he writes. He has been particularly......
Mr. Charles Brown Deals With A Most Attractive Theme In
his little book on The Romance of Dedications (Talbot, 6s.), including foreign as well as English churches in his survey. Many readers will be interested to know, for example,......
Some Books Of The Week
IN Noah's Cargo (Black, 10s. 6d.), Mr. George Jennison, a former head of the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Man- chester, gives us some very curious chapters of natural......
Not Goethe's Life But The Development Of His Mind And
character is the subject of Goethe and Faust, by F. M. Stawell and G. Lowes Dickinson (Bell, 15s.) Mr. Lowes Dickinson and Miss Stawell r e gard " Faust " as a kind of......
* * * * The Bunyan Celebrations Have Reminded Us
of the undying charm of allegory for those who wish to convey spiritual ideas in an easily digestible form. The latest convert to this traditional method is Sir Francis......
* * * * Farming, By Mr. Edward C. Ash
(Methuen, 12s. 6d.), is a good book. Some of it would interest the general reader, as well as the specialist ; but the man whom it would best fit is the so-called gentleman......
The Competition
Barry Island—I send in homage the topaz of my silence— Your threepennybit. The Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most plausible explanation of this message, taken......
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