Students Of Economic History Will Be Grateful To Sir Henry
C. M. Lambert for producing, after some twenty years, a second volume of his History of Banstead in Surrey (Oxford University Press, 16s.). Here, again, he prints in full some......
Mr. D. M. Goodfellow's Modern Economic History Of South...
(Routledge, 10s. 6d.), beginning with the development of the Rand in 1887, is an admirably dispassionate survey of the three main problems of the Dominion—the better use of the......
There Is Little In Justice For Hungary ! By Otto
Legraq (Offices of the Pesti Hirlap, Budapest) that has not appeared in much the same form in the various books, brochures and leaflets of the Hungarian League for Treaty......
Mr. Drinkwater Has Always Confessed To An Overmastering...
genealogies and personal histories. His poetic muse is indeed chiefly inspired by it, gaining therefrom its flavour for localities and place-names. Sooner or later Mr.......
Between Personalities So Diverse As John Leslie, The...
of Raphoe, the diplomatist Bulstrode, Charles Macklin the actor, and Lady Smith (1775-1877) who is now chiefly remembered by Ope's portrait of her, there is no common factor......
To Make An Interesting Book Out Of The Life Of
a successful Chancery lawyer, a popular but humdrum M.P., an exem. plary though not brilliant Lord Chancellor, was not an easy task for Sir Charles Mallet, nor an it be said......
Local Patriotism, Enlisting The Services Of Half A Dozen...
has made The History of Scarborough, edited by Arthur Rowntree (Dent, 21s.), a model of its kind. In this large and handsome volume the editor and his contributors— Dr. Mortimer......
The Successful Accomplishment Of The Task Of Happiness...
Movement, .8s. 6d.) is, in the opinion of the headmaster of Eton, largely a matter of good will. Assuming the truth of the Christian religion, in whose Founder " are all the......
Captain Walter H. Parker Went To Sea At The Age
of twelve as an apprentice in a clipper barque of 603 tons. Forty-eight years later he left the seas, his last command being the ' Olympic,' and the last but one the Homeric,'......
The Arrival Of Mr. Punch's Almanack Is Always An Event
of importance. This year it is especially so : in the hurly-burly of a financial crisis we had almost forgotten that such things existed. In the present issue Mr. Punch is, in......
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