The Scottish Provi- Dent Institution
By M. A. Steuart Yet another centenary history reminds us of the importance of the financial concerns founded at or near Queen Victoria's accession. Mr. Steuart's modest little......
Barney Barnato By Richard Lewinsohn
Just forty years ago Barney Barnato ended a meteoric career, " from White- chapel clown to diamond icing," by throw- ing himself from a Cape mailboat. He was only forty-four,......
Travels In North America By Patrick Campbell
For thirty years the publications of the Champlain Society of Toronto on Canadian history and travel have done credit to Canadian scholars and Edin- burgh printers. The long......
Current Literature
THE POETRY OF EZRA POUND By Alice Steiner Amdur This is a somewhat prejudiced but discriminating study (Oxford University Press, 5s. 6d.). Miss Amdur dearly does not like Mr.......
The August Magazines
PROFESSOR HAROLD TEMPERLEY com- ments severely on the Palestine Report in the Nineteenth Century. It is " a counsel of despair." The Arabs show no aptitude for self-government.......