This Week's Books
Sea and Sussex, short extracts from Mr. Kipling with charm- ing pictures by . Mr. Mixwell, Would make a very . pleasant present (Macmillan. 15s.). Especially we like Mr.......
Messrs. Murray Send Us The Third Volume Of Annals Of
the King's Royal Rifle Corps, by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Butler (30s.). No one who has marched to the silver bugles of " The 80th " can fail to read this book without a thrill.......
Full And By Is A Collection Of Verses By "
Persons of Quality" in praise of drinking (Heinemann. 21s.). The book appears to owe its inspiration from America, and has prefaces by Messrs.' Don Marquis and Christopher......
Messrs. Methuen Have Issued My Early Life, By The '
Ex-German Emperor, at 30s. Having already published a large part of this volume in our columns, we need not notice it now except to state that there is an excellent subject......
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kr. Belloc Still Objects to Mr. Wells' History (Shead and Ward, is.), but we cannot feel any excitement at the news. The dexterity and wit of Mr. Belloc has his antagonist "......
The Caricatures Of That Brilliant Serbian Painter And...
Sava " are introduced to the public with an interesting preface by Sir Edmund Gosse. Benito Mussolini and George Robey arc among the best of his Twenty-Five Caricatures (Elkin......
The Hogarth Press Publishes An Interesting Volume Of The...
Photographs of Famous Men and Fair • Women (t2 2s.) taken by Mrs. Cameron. Mrs. Cameron's father was an astonishing Anglo-Indian who drank himself to death and was consigned in......
The London Scene (faber And Gwyer, 12s. 6d.) Offers The
spectacle of Mr. Lewis Melville's pleasant easy pen fllumin- ating some of the myriad facets of London life—high life, . low life, idle life (especially that), working life, but......
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" Edina, high in heaven wan, Towered, templed, Metropoli- tan, Waited upon by hills " is one way in which you can think of Edinburgh, or you may imagine it as the scene of those......
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In our review, " The Body," of October 30th, Scourges of To-day should have been attributed to Dr. E. T. Burke and ; Diseases _ of Animals to Dr. T. W. M. Cameron; Both books......
* * * * Anything About That Extraordinary Genius Pierre
Loti, who told the French Academy in his inaugural address that he never read, and who yet wrote passages that contain the quintessence of domestic grief,' as in Tante Claire,......
Mr. Paul Whiteman Of Jazz Fame Says That The Ecstasies
of the saint are an intoxication, as is also the stupor of the drug habit, and that the jazz as an intoxicant comes somewhere between these two extremes. " The intoxicants that......
Just Four English Translations Of Benvenuto Cellini's...
exist—Nugent's which is wholly negligible, Ros- eoe's which is pedantic, Addington Symonds' which is as much Symonds as Cellini, and now this one by Miss Anne Maedonnell, which......
Having Registered The Fact That Messrs. Dent Have Issued, At
7s. 6d., an illustrated edition Of Marco Polo, to which is added an introduction by Mr. John Masefield written in l907, we would add . that irrelevant and mean little pictures,......
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