3 JANUARY 1931, page 24

Some Books Of The Week

Avoca the many. pamphlets received by those interested in varying sides of _life, we hope no. reader will- neglect B.B.C. Talks (issued free on personal application to the......

A Writer In The Times Literary Supplement Recently...

the English reader's ideas of - Strindberg are limited to two—that he was mad, and that he was a fanatical hater of women. It is appropriate that the issue last year of the......

Captain Victor Kelly's Thirty-nine Months With The...

8s. 6d.), hardly at all autobiographical, is practically a compressed history of the 110th Brigade, which formed part of the 21st Division. It contains the sober, singularly......

The Valuable Studies Of Anglo-dutch Relations Under...

Mr. Feiling and Miss Trevelyan, have been followed by a book on the same theme in Queen Anne's day. The Dutch Barrier, 1705-19 (Cambridge University Press, 21s.), contains an......

The Amazing Fluency And Competence Of Herr Emil Ludwig's...

makes any attempt at discerning criticism seem irrelevant. He touches nothing which he does 'not transform into the same graphic, palpitating, and, above all, thoroughly......

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A New Competition

SUPPOSING your bookshelf. came to life and yyou were able to invite six characters from English fiction to dine with you, which six would make the most pleasant party and with......