The Effect Of Western Civilization Upon The Oriental Mind Is
a large question, the fringe of which is touched upon by Mr. Clayton Sedgwiek Cooper in The Modernizing of the Orient T. Fisher Unwin, Ss. 6d. net). This volume records the......
A Useful Set Of Volumes Known As "the Cambridge Public
Health Series " are being issued by the Cambridge University Press under the general editorship of Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith and Mr. J. E. Purvis. A new addition to the series is a......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Reties in this miens don not evevssartly prscluds subsequent vertu.] Dr. Bernard Bosanquet has just published Three Lectures as Aesthetic (Macmillan and Co., 3s. 6d. net),......
The Deaf Is The Title Of A Book Recently Published
by Mr. Harry Beat (T. Y. Crowell Co., $2 net). It is a study on a considerable scale of the position of deaf-mutes in American society, and of the provision made in the various......
In Spite Of Its Title, Round The World In Strange
Company, by Nicholas Everitt (T. Werner Laurie, 128. 6d. net), is concerned only with America. Mr. Everitt, who postulates in his intro- duction that " style has little to do......
The Popularity Of Oriental Cults At Rome Has Always Been
regarded as one of the signs of the Empire's decadence. Fear of a parallel state of affairs in America seems to have prompted the writing of Hinduism in Europe and America by......
The Comic Spirit In Russian Literature Is Hardly Even...
of existing by most English readers. They know nothing, for instance, of the succession of satirical comedies which through more than a century have been the pride of the......
Mr. Robert Lynd Has Collected A Number Of His Essays
that have appeared in the columns of our contemporary the New Statesman, and published them under the name of The Book of This and That (Mills and Boon, 45. 6d. net). The papers......
Reticence In Literature, And Other Papers (j. G. Wilson, Se.
6d. net) is a volume of essays on literary subjects by Mr. Arthur Waugh. Besides the article which gives its title to the collection, we may mention one dealing with " Some......
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