Max Beerbohm In Perspective. By Bohun Lynch. (w....
6d.)—Mr. Lynch gossips pleasantly about the early works of Mr. Beerbohm, giving quotations, but was it necessary to rehash so late a work as that immortal description of......
The Scottish Historical Review For January Contains,...
articles on Scottish topics, an account by an American scholar, Mr. Volwiler, of Robert Owen's picturesque and fruitless mission to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818. Owen......
Miss Brierley's Book, An Introduction To Psychology...
will give the reader a most useful summary of the creeds, first of the old-fashioned " classic " psychologists, secondly of the " behaviourists," and lastly of both the Freud......
The Hibbert Journal For January Devotes Its First Three...
to the Modernist Movement in the English Church. Mr. Major, the Principal of Ripon Hall, who is said to be threatened with prosecution for heresy, contributes an article......
In A History Of The Perm School, Cambridge (cambridge :
Bowes and Bowes, 108. 6d. net), Mr. J. M. Gray traces the story of what is now in many respects a pioneer school from the time of its foundation in 1618. The school has passed......
The Portraits Of Dante. By F. Jewett Mather. (princeton...
Press ; London : Humphrey Milford. 21s.)—The greatest poet of his age, Dante, was painted by its greatest painter, Giotto, and in 1840 two Englishmen were instrumental to the......
The London Mercury For January Contains The Concluding...
Mrs. Warre Cornish's admirable " Memories of Tennyson." " The poet once appeared alone on his return to Aldworth with the query, What do you think they are going to do to me ? '......
In Psychology And The Christian Life (student Christian...
Russell Square, W.C., 4s. net), Mr. Pym has endeavoured to relate the teachings of modern psychology as to such concepts as suggestion, the sub-consciousness, repressions, and......
The Industrial Welfare Society Has Changed The Title Of Its
monthly journal to Industrial Welfare (51 Palace Street, West- minster, 9d.). The January number is attractive in appearance and contains some useful articles. Mr. F. H. Hand,......
Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The National Review for January contains a vigorous article by the Duke of Northumberland on " The Irish......
The Publishers' Circular In Its Current Issue States That...
new books and new editions were published in the United Kingdom last year. The total was larger by 22 than in 1920. It was less by 500 than the total for 1914 and leas by 1,3(.0......
The New Number Of The Library, Dated December (h. Milford,
5s. net), contains an elaborate study of " Early Railway Time Tables " by Mr. E. H. Dring, who adduces fresh reasons for regarding George Bradshaw as the originator of the......
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