For Many Young People " Victorian " Is A Term

of reproach. That belief may be modified if they will read Mr. II. V. Routh's cleverly chosen selections illustrating England under Victoria (Methuen, 6s.). He takes topics like......

To Write An Account Of " Creation " Which Is

to begin " at the beginning " and which is to embrace an account of the formation of island universes, of the sun, of the planets, of the appearance of life on the surface of......

Mr. A. S. Comyns Carr, In Escape From The Dole

(The Crite- rion Miscellany : Faber and Faber, ls.) offers us an old remedy in a new form. He suggests that the money now spent on subsidizing unemployment would be better......

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Miss Nancy Cunard Is Following The Modern Mode Of Pub-

lishing a small hand of poems at a high price. Her Poems (Two) 1925 (Aquila Press, 10s. Od.) are beautifully . . produced in handset type. Their manner is in the latest Paris......

The Purchase Of The Khedive's Suez Canal Shares By Disraeli

in 1875 is one of the famous episodes on which light is thrown by the new volume of the Documents Diplomatiques Francais (1871-1914) now being issued by the French Foreign......

The Competition

TliE Editor offers a prize of two guineas for the hest original Safety Jingle for Motorists. An example of the sort of thing suggested is the Seaman's Rule of the Road ;— " When......

Since 1915 The American Negro Is Less A Tiller Of

the soil and has entered into a wider range of economic activities. Miss Louise Venable Kennedy has examined the causes and effects of this change in The Negro Peasant Turns......

Some Books Of The Week During The Past Month The

books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— Nobr-Fic-nox :—Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown ; African Drums, by Fred Puleston ; The Ochrana : The Russian......