Mr. Cyril Asquith's Trade Union Laze For Laymen (cassell,...
appears at a topical moment. There is a sect ion on the very fine distinction between " informing" and "persuading " in the matter of peaceful picketing. A chapter on '• Some......
1 He Production And Distribution Of Clean Milk (the...
1:1 Great Tower Street, E.C. 3, 2s.) is a subject of im- INN, importance to us all. Mr. A. T. R. Mattiek tells us at England consumes only one-third of a pint per head per or......
We Turned Instantly To The End Of Great Painters In
Art and dre (Xewnes, 2s.) to see what Mr. Lewis Hind had to say f Sargent. He is guarded and generous, but, as we suspected, nenthusiastie. We would question the correctness of......
It Is Much To Be Marvelled At The Little Bird
called a Wren, Ming fastened to a little stick of hazel newly gathered, (loth . urn about and roast himself." This is only one of a thousand plaint notions and beliefs about......
The Manual Of Modern Cookery, By Miss Jessie Lindsay, And
Professor V. II. Mottram (University of London Press, 4s. 6d.) has only some fifty pages of academic theory and two hundred and fifty pages of recipes for agreeable dishes. The......
Mr. Canby Is Known As A Very Able Editor On
the other side of the Atlantic as well as a writer of terse and brilliant English. In Better Writing (Cape, 3s. 6d.) he has made a really useful contribution to the already......
Sir Robert Baden-powell Has Given Young England Some Very...
and pithily expressed advice in Lifc's Snags (Pearson. 2s. 6d.). We can imagine the horror of the highbrow on looking through this volume— but it is nut for him but lOr human......
If Only For The Delightful Photographs Of Miss Beatrice...
in poses expressive of joy, fear, jealousy and other emotions, The Science and Art of Speech and Gesture (Daniel, 7s. 6d.) would be an attractive book. But the author, Miss......
This Week's Books
CEnALD GOULD, is better known—and in our opinion much more readable—as a critic than as a poet, but in his precious— indeed overpriced—little volume of new poems, Beauty the......
The New Competition
WE offer two prizes in our New Competition of £2 1 Os. I.:wit, one for men and one for women. Our readers are as1;ed t.) imagine that they can only select their future husband......
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