Wheelwright And Son And Grandson Of Wheelwrights, George...
real profession an author) passed his innocent boy- hood in a stuffy little stationer's shop in the somnolently peaceful—almost eighteenth-century—atmosphere of the comfortable......
Unfortunately, The First Poem We Noticed On Opening ,mr. W.
Force Stead's new book of verse, Festival in Tuscany -(Cobden-Sanderson, 5s.) was a descriptive piece, in very fine style, entitled " A Sea Chanty." When Mr. Force Stead 'writes......
When Mr. Shaw Desmond's Sketches Of Night-life In London...
the 'nineties appeared from time to time in the columns of an evening contemporary, they solaced pleasantly enough the evening railway journey home. But a whole book-load of......
Some Books Of The Rn Week
Araorrosz children's books, reviewed in our Supplement this week, we have not mentioned Lady Erleigh's Little One's Log (Partridge's, 7s. 6d.), for it is a book for mothers.......
In Consequence Of The Widespread Interest Aroused By The...
questionnaire in the Spectator, asking distinguished men and women what three books had chiefly influenced their career, we have decided to publish next week further answers,......
A Thoroughly Exciting Story For Boys From End To End
is Mr. Lowell Thomas's Boys' Life of Colonel Lawrence (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.). His account is vivid and racy and appeals to that zest for destruction which is characteristic of......
To Those Who Like Hounds And Horses, Nymphs And Nectar,
and who enjoy the companionship of streams, meadows, and hills, Mr. Patrick Chalmers's book of stories, The Little Pagan Faun (Cape, 5s.), will come as a new delight. In it he......
A New Competition
WE have pleasure in announcing a new and somewhat difficult competition for those of our readers who I.,ave a literary turn of mind. The Editor offers a prize of twenty guineas......
In Our Issue Of December 17th We Shall Publish The
opinions of some of the younger generation, who have already their feet on the ladder of fame, but have not yet achieved that eminence to which their talents entitle them to......
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