The Same Praise, Coupled With The Same Caution, Is Due
to Dr. Irwin's Universal Bible Commentary (R.T.S., 7s. 6d.). He often sheds light on dark places, and his work is a model of compactness. But the introductions' to the several......
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Dr. Yespersen's new language, Novial, which he describes in An International Language (Allen and Unwin, 4s. 6d.) is derived from Esperanto ; but it is uglier, more complicated,......
Dr. Peloubet And Miss Alice D. Adams Have Collaborated To
bring up to date Smith's Bible Dictionary (Peloubet's Bible Dictionary, R.T.S., 10s. 6d.), and have produced a very useful reference volume. It is, of course, based upon......
* * * * In How You Began (gerald Howe,
2s. 6d.) Mrs. Williams- Ellis has told, side by side, the stories of animal evolution and of embryology. She has done it very well, in clear and simple language. The book is......
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Mr. Walter Pollard Has Fulfilled A Pious Filial Duty In
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General Knowledge Questions
Ours weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. M. J. C. Meildejohn, 136 Coombe Lane, S.W. - 20, for the following :-......
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