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Who, except a mathematician here and there, has heard of Professor Ramanujan, of whom an English scientist said that " every positive integer was one of his personal friends " ?......
A Useful Analysis Of T • He Relationship Between Soviet...
and the outside world is provided by Dr. Frederick Lewis Schuman in American Policy toward Russia since 1917 (Martin Lawrence, 10s.). The author is Instructor in Political......
Mr. Arnold Hodson, Formerly A Consul And Now A Governor,
is an indefatigable traveller. Where Lions Reign (Skeffington, 18s.) is an account of his travels during his consulate at Maji in south-western Abyssinia. It is a restless book......
Mr. W. A. S. Hewins Has Recorded His Experiences Of
political and economic work in two formidable volumes entitled The Apologia, of an Imperialist (Constable, 30s.). As Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's economic adviser and secretary of......
Some Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 818.) That distinguished soldier,. Sir Aylmer Haldane, ' has produced a really admirable history of his family. The Haldanes of Gleneagles (Blackwood) is......
Four Months' Camping In The Himalayas, By Dr. W. G.
N. Van Der Sleen (Philip Allan, 21s.) tells of the tour of a Dutch scientist and his wife in the mountains. surrounding Simla, under the shadow of Kailas, Nanda Devi and other......
The Layman As Well As The Specialist Will Find Much
to interest him in Man and Animals in the New Hebrides, by John R. Baker (Routledge, 12s. 6d.). The book consists of disConnected essays On a variety of special topics which Dr.......
Miss Lucy Allen Paton Pays Graceful Tribute To Malory, And
it is no mean achievement to have made Malory live again throughout over three hundred pages of translation from the French sources of our Laneelot legend. It is an adinirable......
Hajji Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar's New Translation Of .tbe Holy...
(from S. M. S. Faruque, The Mosque, Woking, 12s. 6d.) contains a learned but controversial introduction, two essays on the life of the Prophet, a useful summary of the Book,......
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