Townshend Of Chitral And Kut (heinemann, 21s.) Concerns A...

who was loved by many friends, but who has been severely criticized, alive and dead, as a humbug and self- seeker. Mr. Erroll Sherson has fulfilled a difficult task with much......

It Is Not Much That We Know About New Zealand,

and Mr. Philip T. Kenway's book, Pioneering In Poverty Bay (Murray, n. 6d.), should be of interest to all who have friends out there or who have themselves wondered whether they......

Some Books Of The Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— NoN-Ficriox.—The Nature of the Physical World, by A. S. Eddington ; Introduction to Dutch Art,......

The Noble Poetry Of The Psalter Has Set From The

very beginning the devotional standard of Christianity ; and entered deeply into the liturgic and spiritual life of the Church. But those who still use the Psalms and love them,......

Epigrams, To Be Successful, Must Be Very Successful—we...

is not to be construed as an epigram, by the way, because, if so, it is a bad one by our own standard—for nothing is less worth putting into print than third-rate efforts at......

Matthew _arnold's Name Has Hitherto Been Free From Scandal.

Indeed, he has seemed aloof from human frailty, and we have suspected that his impeccable good conduct kept his poems a little arid and all too refined. Mr. Hugh Kingsmill,......

It May Seem Strange To Many That The German Soldier

should be much the same as the British Tommy, but Private Suhren, by George von der Vring (translated by Fred Hall and published by Methuen at 7s. 6d.), makes one think that he......

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The Competition

Tan Editor offers a prize of Ave guineas for the best answer in three hundred words to the question, " Why I shall or shall not travel by the Channel Tunnel ? "—if and when it......