The Newcomen Society, Which Is Named After The English...

of the steam-engine, and which exists for the study of the history of engineering and technology, ought to be more widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. For its sixth......

The Correspondence Of Catherine The Great When Grand...

Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, English Am- bassador at the Russian Court, translated and edited by Lord Ilchester and Mrs. Langford Brooke (Thornton Butterworth, 21s.), is a......

Miss Elizabeth Lazenby's Ireland, A Catspaw (boswell...

6d.) is picturesque journalism, and has its value as recording first-hand impressions of the ceaseless interplay of political intrigue, marked occasionally by brutal and......

Sometimes The Greatest Of Our Poets Seems About To Dis-

appear behind the obfuscation of his myriad commentators. But the votive candles lit by Mr. W. J. Lawrence in Shake- speare's Workshop (Basil Blackwell, 5s.) are vivid enough to......

Some Books Of The Week

ALL those who appreciate the more reticent and aristocratic forms of art will be enchanted with A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. (The Heslewood Books.......

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A New Competition The Editor Offers A Prize Of Three

guineas for the best description in verse of a popular English seaside resort ftt midday on August Bank Holiday. Entries should not be more than sixteen lines in length, but......