Edinburgh: The Golden Age. By Michael Joyce. (longmans....
present so rich and extensive a tapestry as Edinburgh at the close of the eighteenth century is a task easy in appearance 6ut in fact exacting, demanding both arduous labour and......
Brown Men And Red Sand, By Charles P. Mountford. (phoenix
House. 181.) IN 1898 the anthropologists Spencer and Gillen forecast the speedy decline of the Central Australian aborigine. Fifty years later Mr. Mountford, after a study of......
Shorter Notices
FROM the non-specialist point of view this book, a re-written University prize essay, still seems lacking in form. This is a pity for the subject is one of great and also of......
This Book Has Something Of The Musty, Nostalgic Charm Of
a provincial museum's cellars. It is the story of the names—painters, administrators and critics, forgotten, half-forgotten and sometimes all-too-well remembered—the galleries,......
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