We Welcome The First Number Of The Colonist, A Sixpenny
monthly magazine edited and produced by consumptives at that wonderful place Papworth, of which we have several times written in the Spectator. Some of the matter is, of course,......
Lord Ronaldshay Tells Us In A Preface That Mr. David
Macdonald, the author of The Land of the Lama (SeeleY, Serviee, 21s.) saved the Dalai Lama's life in 1909 and that during his sixteen years as British Trade Agent at G3iantie......
Those Who Love Fine Printing Will Delight In Mr. A.
F. Johnson's charming selection of One Hundred Title-Pages, 1500-1800 (Lane, 15s.), arranged according to countries, With an introduction. Germany comes first, notable for the......
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In Some Modern Sculptors . (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.) Mr. Stanley Casson treats a dozen artists with an admirable discrimination. He is a shrewd critic as well as......
In Archbishop Davidson And The English Church, Mr. Sidney...
has put together a book that is chiefly valuable for the numerous quotations from the Primate's utterances. Mr. Dark is aware that he is presenting the public with the picture......
* * * * The Leitmotif Of The Re-birth Of
Poland, by Dr. W. K. Korostowetz (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.) is Aesop's fable of the frog and the ox, a cautionary tale that might be told of many another State of the new Europe.......
The Competition
Tire Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the most interesting postcard answering the question, " What is the first thing you remember ? " Illegible entries will be......
-some Books 61 The Week
DURING the past month the books most in demand at The Times Book Club have been :— NON-FICTION : Pages from the Diary of Lord D'Abenum, Anibassador - of Peaie, 'Vol. I ; Sir......
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