There Is Something Terrifying About Any Work Of Art By
the hand or the pen of a madman, and Nicolas Gogol's Diary of a Madman (The Cresset Press, £3 3s.), recently translated by Prince Mirsky, has that`,` something ", to excess. It......
The Nonesuch Plutarch (five Volumes, 30s. Each) Was...
all the honours by us on the appearance .of the first volume: The , splendid typography, the spaciousness of the treatment, the originality of -.Mr. Poulton's portrait......
Durham. Cathedral, By The Rev. James Wall, Is One Of
the " Famous Churches" series (Dent, cloth 2s. 6d. or leather 4s. 6d.). It is written with special emphasis upon the personal element in the history of Durham, so that the......
" Certain Lighthouses On The Migration Routes Have Been...
fitted with perching screens, which are alive with birds at certain seasons. ` To prevent the birds flying blindly into the liectinf glaSs with fatal results, it is proposed to......
General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions 'submitted is awarded this week to M. R. Johnson, Brook- lands, Church Stretton, Salop, for the folloviing •......
The Sub-title, " Conversations Of Real Use," Of The Little
book of French conversations, reprinted from the Daily Mail, under the title of Brush Up Your French (Dent, 2s. 6d.), is completely justified. Mr. Hartog, the French master at......
Human Nature, By Dan Griffiths, With A Foreword By The
Right Hon. Wedgwood_ Berin (the. C. W. Daniel Company, 2s. Ad.) is a rather crude attempt to supply a philosophy for the policy 'of social reform. It is neither more nor less......
The Tribute, Which Was Issued On May 14th, The Anniver-
sary of His Majesty's restoration to health, is a large, thick magazine containing some thirty short stories by well-known writers, including Compton Mackenzie, H. de Vere......
Herr Niemann's Life Of Brahms Has Been Followed By Another,
also frcan a. German, Richard Specht, translated by Eric Blom and published by Dent (21s.). Specht knew the Master during the last ten years of his life, through those peaceful......
The Interest Now Taken In The Possibility Of Reunion Between
the Anglican and the Orthodox Churches is too often accom- panied by an almost complete ignorance of the special practices and characteristics of Eastern Christianity ; and......
More Books Of The Week
(Continued from page 905.) • Professor Vladimirtsov's Life of Chingis-Khan (Routledge, 68.) is no " romanced biography " of the Mongol war-lord who shook the thrones of all the......
The University Of Edinburgh Journal In Its Summer Number...
Oliver and Boyd, ls.) reprints Sir Alfred Ewing's admirable memorial notice of Lord Balfour, Chancellor of the University for nearly forty years. It also pays a farewell tribute......
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