How Life Begins, By Jules Power (michael Joseph, 15s.), Is
rather more detailed (ten to thirteen). No flowers or bees, but there is an interesting account of the courtship and mating habits of birds and fish before he gets down (perhaps......
Mother's Pouch By Two Children On Holiday. They Rear Him
on milk, and• anything else he can steal, but when they return to the city there is an added hazard : Tab the cat. This becomes such an anxiety that eventually they take -Ring-......
Two Different Approaches To 1066 Etc., Each Good In Its
way, appehr in Battle 1066, by Brigadier C. N. Barclay (Dent, 21s.), and The Field of Selllac, by Allen Vanbrugh (Dobson, 15s.). Brigadier Barclay's serious study is the work of......
A Curious Particle Of Military History Is Con- Tained In
The Rowboat War, by Fred Swayze (Macmillan, I3s. 6d.). In 1812, Britain and America came to blows over the control of the Great Lakes. Mr Swayze, a Canadian, has gathered facts......
For Younger Children, About Six To Eight, There Are Two
new books in Collins's 'Panorama' series. Seal Bay, by Geoffrey Dutton and Dean Hay (12s. 6d.), tells, in simple text and large photo- graphs, how two small boys on an island......
Weather Is One Thing That The Astronaut Does Not Have
to contend with. The Question and Answer Book of Space, by Ruth A. Sonneborn (Odhams, 10s. 6d.), is a profusely illustrated account, in simple terms (eight to eleven), of what......
Looking At Life
IN a country where weather is a constant topic of conversation, the majority of people are woefully ignorant of its causes. This, however, does not deter the 'How and Why......
Attention, Please!
CHILDREN and young persons, nowadays, have a whale of a lot done for their enlightenment, one way and another. No longer are the golden apples hung at any height, for those to......
Trafalgar : An Eye-witness Account Of A Great Battle, By
Stuart Legg (Hart-Davis, 30s.), is made of quotations from contemporary records—diaries, dispatches, letters. Mr Stuart Legg is an editor of documentary films, and in this......
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