Captain Charles Johnson's General History Of The...
of the Most Notorious Pyrates ." is being published by the Cayme Press, Stanhope Mews West, in two volumes at 30s. each. The first volume is out, and a remarkably good......
The Profession Of Being A " Human Fly," Mr. William
Larkin tells us, is both exciting and profitable. In Steeplejacks and Steeplejacking (Jonathan Cape, Os.), he describes a fight with a madman in mid air, how he climbed over the......
Why Did The Bishop Of London Write A Preface To
Medi- tations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life ? (Macmillan, 2s. 6d.). As the book is sealed with his " crested and pre- vailing " name, one expects from the author, an......
Atomicity And Quanta (cambridge University Press, 2s....
Jeaas, should be mentioned as being a pronounce- ment by one of the most eminent of mathematicians. It is not for the vulgar, however, but for those who can solve wave-......
Mr. Milford Publishes The First Modern Translation Of...
essays by Mr. George B. Ives—the last was by Charles Cotton 275 years ago—in an excellently printed edition (Oxford University Press, £5 5s. Od.) with introduction by Miss Grace......
That Well-known Traveller, Grace Thompson Seton, Has...
on India which she calls Yes, Lady Saheb (Hodder and Stoughton, . 16s.). The text is better than the title and the illustrations are excellent. Where she deals with Pets, men......
A Dictionary Of European Literature, By Mr. Laurie Magnus...
25s.), holds "treasuries of vision" in the world of books. The short introduction sketching the scope of the work and suggesting, briefly but pointedly, a clue to the future of......
As We Go To Press Comes A Sumptuous Volume On
Leicester- shire and Its Hunts : the Quorn, the Cottesmore and the Belvoir, by Mr. Charles Simpson, R.I., with twenty-eight illustrations in colour by the author and numerous......
This Week's Books
Docrons often write charmingly ; Sir Frederick Treves, for instance, in one essay (" The Garden of the Unforgotten ") has brought to us within the limit of a few pages the......
The Price Of The Correspondence Of Samuel Pepys (g. Bell
and Sons, Ltd.) is 36s. and not 26s. as stated in last week's issue.......
Mr. Ralph Nevill's New Book, Night Life In London And
Paris, Past and Present (Cassell, 16s.), is a lightly written and entertaining chronicle of amusement places and their patrons— chiefly of the past. But the writer knows of what......
Sold Out.
Many persons have reported during the past few weeks that they have been unable to buy a copy of the SPECTATOR at the bookstalls or newsagents owing to the stock being sold out.......
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