The London Of Our Grandfathers Was A Delightful Place, And
Mr. Gordon Home, in the Pictorial Presentation of London 100 years ago, makes it live again for us. Piccadilly Circus before the Circus existed, Leicester Square where Mr.......
We Learn From Messrs. Hamilton, The Publishers Of War Birds
: The Diary of an Anonymous Aviator, that the author is the late John Macdougal Grider, who was killed in the Great War. The diary has been edited by Mr. Elliott Springs, a......
A Large But Light And Well-printed Volume Which Exercises...
imagination without taxing the brain is the Prefaces and Introductions of Anatole France, which the Bodley Head publishes for the modest price of 7s. 6d. Considering the good......
The Battle Book Of Ypres, Compiled By Miss Beatrix Brice,
with the assistance of General Sir William Pulteney, and provided with a short preface by Lord Plumer of Messines, is a difficult book to criticize. We picked it up with......
This Week's Books
Wu noticed with approval that the 1919 version of " God Save the King " was the first number of Songs of Praise for Day Schools (Oxford University Press. 1s. 3d.). The Bishop of......
Mr. Will Rogers Is A Man Of Wisdom As Well
as wit. He flew from Berlin to Moscow, and sums up the present situation there very acutely in There's not a Bathing Suit in Russia (A. & C. Boni, New York, $1.75). He tells us......
The Cult Of Adam Lindsay Gordon Grows With The Passing
of years. " How we beat the Favourite " must have been recited a million times, and there are boys over all the English- speaking world whose pulses quicken at " The Lay of the......
General Knowledge Questions
Tun Editor awards the prize of one guinea, offered weekly for the best General Knowledge paper (with answers), to Mr. M. Dane for the following :- What Do You Know of London? 1.......
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