Readers Of Mr. H. V. Morton's In Search Of England
will welcome its companion, In Search of Scotland (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). He proceeds on his cheerful, sentimental, semi- philosophic way through the Lowlands and the Highlands,......
Some Books Of The Week
Wrrii the promise of an Exhibition of Italian Art in London this winter, Messrs. Jack's sumptuous volume on Italian Painting (42s.) comes at an appropriate moment. The authors......
As A Brief Historical Exposition Of The Principles...
League of Nations, nothing could be better than The Growth of International Thought which Miss Melian Stawell, of Newnham, has just written for the Home University Library......
The Competition
SiNcu the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we have suggested for our next competition a description or an impression of some exciting or......
Thucydides Has Often Been Assailed. Mahaffy Attacked His...
Comford wrote of him as a Mythistoricus ; Bury of all people, to whom the unintelligibility of human history was almost an axiom, called him a cynic ; and many modern historians......
Many Persons Whose Knowledge Of India Is Confined To Miss
Mayo's Mother India imagine that the fate of every Indian girl is to be sold to senile uxoriousness during adolescence, or at best to become the slave of a hard task- master. In......
The Great Fifteenth Century Artists Who Worked For The Dukes
of Burgundy are well known, but their patrons are forgotten. Professor Cartellieri's elaborate and attractive study of The Court of Burgundy (Kegan Paul, 21s.) supplies a real......
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