... THE FOURTH VICTORY NUMBER OF THE SPHERE (Completion of the Series) Will be published next week February 15 What the Navy did in the Great War is told in a series of special coloured pictures and special articles written by expert pens. 5 After running weekly War Numbers up to more than 200 consecutive issues. The Sphere has now commenced Victory Numbers, and last week's, at two shillingr, ...

... i I CONTENTS of the CHRISTMAS NUMBER j of THE SPHERE j i 1922 ____ ______ _ j PAGE 1 Frontispiece HERE'S TO GOOD FRIENDS ALL. By Millar Watt. 2 A CHRISTMAS LAUD. By Lucrezia de' Medici. 3--6 Story-- SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER. By A. S. M. Hutchinson. 7 COLUMBINE WAITS. By Lewis Baumer. 8 SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER co i t i m ed. 9 COLUMBINE AND HARLEQUIN. Poem by Dorothy Margaret Stuart. 10--13 ...

... CONTENTS of the CHRISTMAS NUMBER of THE SPHERE/' 1928 i Design VI °N A WINTFR'S DAY. By PAGE 1 CONTENTS. 5 CHRISTMAS MORNING.-' WILL THE ICE HOLD By Hookway Cowles. ,CAROL From PRAETORIUS. 1609. with Embellishment by Mrs. Dod Procter. DECEMBER SNOW. From a Photographic Study. 8,9 THE STORY OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS. Anew version, by Dr. M. R. James, Provost of Eton °F DIPPS- A S-V 11 ...

... CONTENTS of the CHRISTMAS NUMBER of THE SPHERE/' 1929 Cover THE SHEPHERDS' GIFT. By A. E. Cooper, R.B.A. Design PAGE 19 GATHERING THE HOLLY THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS. By Millar Watt. 20 LAUDA SION. By Mark Symons. 21 THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR. From Queen Mary's Psalter. 22 A CAUNTERBURIE PILGRIMAGE. After Master Chaucer, His Buke. By L. E. Filmore. Illustrated by Ivy Isabel Saul. 23 THE ...

... CONTENTS OF THE SPHERE CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1930 Cover GLORIA IN EXCELSIS. By Traus. Decorations by Design F. N. Price. PAGE 21 FRONTISPIECE THE HARBINGER OF GOOD THINGS. By Anna K. Zinkeisen. 22 A CHRISTMAS STORY. Illustrated by Anning Bell and Paul Edmonds. 23 MOLLY IN HER LITTLE ROOM. From the Painting by Mark Symons. 24 THE BLUE HAT. By Meriel Buchanan. Illustrated by Abbe. 25 THE ...

... SPECIAL FEATURES in this ISSUE Page Secrets of Bisley 91 Tewkesbury Pageant 92 Eton and Harrow 93 Railway Electrificas tion s b 94 Katmandu Revealed 96-97 Caesar's Second Galley 101 Jewels of Old Turkey 103 Tracking Gorilla 108 n ...

... SPECIAL FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE Page The Arrival of Gandhi 407 The Mystery of France 411 The King of Wigs 412 Kangchenjunga 413 The Sense of Denmark 414 The Baduis of Java 416*7 Facets of Canada 420 Astronomy 422*3 Hungary's Wine Harvest 424*5 Partridge Finance 432 A Paradise for the Young 434 Rome at its Best 438 a ...

... SPECIAL FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE Page Sheep Dogs in London s 7 Life and Election s 8 Great Bridges e s s 9 Agriculture in France see 10 Drums of the Wild s s 11 The Arizona of Spain ess 12=13 Ostrich Renaissance s 15 Japanese Life sees 18=19 Japan as Colonizer s 20 Mechanics 21 Archaeology sees 23 Winter Cruises s 30 a ...

... 4 CONTENTS 4 4 Page 9-- THE GIFT In this picture the artist has shown our readers something of the busy last minute rush on Christmas Eve. The shoppers are thronging Regent Street. They pause to glance at the modern lay figures in the window of a costumier's establishment. One elegant creature is handing a gift of pearls to another waxen beauty. Drawn by John Pimlott Page 1 0-- A CHRISTMAS ...

... THE SPHERE CHRISTMAS NUMBER* CONTENTS PAGE COVER DESIGN A Lady with a Book of Hours by A. Davis FRONTISPIECE Merriment Ashore. Drawn by Rowland Hilder I HAIL, NOEL A Carol with Decorations by Gladys Rees 2 GEORGE ROMNEY Portrait of Mrs. Carwardine and Child 3 LONDON'S RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT A Vision of Early Norman London. Drawings by Walter Hodges and Cecil King, R.L 4-5 AN ORDINARY COUPLE A ...

... t --'V Contents; 4 V'V* y of tfje %^^y# I £s>pf)ere Cfjristmas dumber hV^ft# *tM&% 1039 4^W ca 'Jfii W+fjr COVER DECORATION. By *^^1; W Harold Nelson. Picture by Terborch. FRONTISPIECE: THE GATE- %\,PF WAY. By JackMathew 11 frJft JT THE ROBIN I LOVE BEST OF ALL. By M. E. Nightingale. wt I X Decorations by Gladys Rees 12 w lk| WINTER AND AUTUMN. vk By Alexander Jamieson and E. m sg wt T. ...

... CHiySTMJS (-CONTENTS ^-^1949o^ l'os(ae Rates for this issue, Inland and Overseas, 3£d. Page FRONTISPIECE, by J. Nicolson 7 FANCIFUL-LIKE, by Stella Gibbons (based on a water-colour by J. J. Tissot) 8 ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS, painting by William Logsdail 9 BRINGING IN THE YULE LOG, by Jack Matthew 10 THE HOUSE PARTY GOES OUT TO THE ICE, by Jack Matthew n SURVIVING LINKS WITH CHARLES DICKENS, ...