Dr. Urquhart's The Vedanta And Modern Thought (oxford...
12s. 6d.) is proof, if proof were needed, of the increasing attention which is being given to ancient Eastern philosophies. " India," he writes, has a most MI- portant......
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An interesting variation froth the majority of gift books fa term which usually signifies that the reviewer has :found nothing of any interest in the book except its' elaborate......
Those Who Have Read In The Daily Press And Elsewhere
and enjoyed Sir John Fortescue's various scattered articles will be glad. to .have them under one cover in the shape of Historical and - Military Essays (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.).......
The Great Anthropologist, Sir Baldwin Spencer, Who With...
Mr. Gillen made an exhaustive and accurate study of the Australian aborigines, has described his travels in two fascinating voluMes , entitled Wanderings in Wild Atistralia......
If It Be True, As We Are Sometimes Told, That
an era of fundamentalism is upon us, this may perhaps provide a reading public for Mr. Ogilvy van Lennep's elaborate' and painstaking work on The Measured Times of the Bilile......
Among The Recent Omnibus " Books Which Are Becoming So
popular, we would, recommend Mesirs. -G011anaz's Great . Short Stories of Defection, Mystery and Horror, containing More than 1,200 pagei of shocks and starts and thrills for......
"a Quaint Conceit " Probably Best Describes Mr. Hedley...
curious collection of oddities, which he has called The Mindes Delight (Grant Richards and Philip Saints- bury, 10s. 6d.). They may delight some minds, but to us they seem to......
Mr. Henry Baerlein Has Written A Very Bright, Discursive...
in Heine : A Strange Guest (Bles, 12s. 6d.). It is in the new fashion of biography ; part fiction, part fact, and an intolerable deal of private and Mr. Baerlein never quite......
" The Greatest Happiness Of The Greatest Number " Is
now so much a hackneyed phrase, so completely the basis of all our political thought, that its philosophical origin and basis are almost forgotten. Like its physical......
General Knowledge Questions
ou, weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. N. Locoek, Eton College, Windsor, for the following :— . Questions on Modern......
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