The Late Sir Harry Johnston, With His Passion For Economic
botany, would have revelled in Mr. Fairchild's Exploring for Plants (Macmillan, 215.), and he would have envied the United States its possession of a Foreign Plant Introduction......
("general Knowledge Competition" And "more Books Of V
Week" will be found on pages 471 and 472.)......
Frau Marie Von Bunsen Knows Two Worlds. She Calls Her
book The World I Used to Know (Thornton Butterworth, Its.), but she has known more than one. The daughter of a famous Ambassador to the Court of St. James, she has much English......
In What We Drink, A Booklet Published By Messrs. Heine-
mann for Is., we learn that our distinguished predecessor, the Spectator of April 2901, 1712, advised its readers " to be in a particular manner careful how they meddle with......
A Very Beautifully Produced Book Is Henry James : Letters
to A. C: Benson Mid - Auguste Moriod ; now first published and edited with an introduction by Mi.: E.' F. Benson (Elkin; Mathews and Marrot, 15s:), Henry James was a remarkable......
Some Books Of The Week
Puatisuno in 1924 at ten guineas, the reappearance of Major j. IV. Hills' A Summer on the Test (Philip Allan, 15s.) at a new price and with the addition of seven chapters makes......
One Would Like To Know A Little More About The
provenance of Mr. Harry E. Burroughs' Tale of a Vanished Land (Allen, I5s.). It seems in large part autobiographical, and describes the life of a Jewish community, of whom the......
The Competition
YOUR cousin and his wife, who have lived all their lives in Australia, want to spend one month of next year in Great Britain. They ask your advice as to when they should come,......
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