... to a French speculator on the London Stock Exchange. In this realistic vein Dr. Stringfellow Barr, who is already known to us as the author of a life of Mazzini, presents his erudite new volume, THE PILGRIMAGE OF WESTERN MAN (Victor Gollancz. 7s. 6d ...

... belong in spirit to this age, who so often in his books has revealed a longing for the unusual in scene and custom, now takes us on a journey to SPAIN (B. T. Batsford. 16s.). This is surely the most successful of all Mr. Sitwell's art-cum-travel books (although ...

... old isolationism has at last learned that we cannot withdraw from the world. The new isolationism holds that international co-ODeration is a fantasv and that the U.S. must run the world single-handed. No stauncher advocates of that doctrine will be found ...

... our figures, we would like to point out that a billion, in the U.S.A., is a thousand millions, not a million millions.) In England the picture is somewhat different. Set-ownersh p is only rising toward the half-million mark. We base our estimate, rather ...

... has been translated by Mr. Eric Northcott. Many were the defects and shortcomings of the Parliament of eighteenth-century England, writes the author, yet it was not only the stage, but also the cradle of great men. Where else in the whole of Europe, before ...

... Henry Samson Physical Culture and World's Champion He was wearing a pair of tiger-skin drawers and his muscles bulged out every which way. He was great. Geordie Mactaggart came, from Perthshire, and David Walker tells us in this book how he learnt to grow ...

... first autumn snows, about fifty years ago. The snows are important, but thp period is not, except for the extra isolation it used to impose. For Mr. Walter van Tilburg Clark's novel, in spite of the dramatic nature of its setting, is mainly one of character ...

... to the general female ego. These matters are germane in respect of The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay t Collins, 8s. 6d.), the first book this dis tinguished writer has given us in ten years. I believe most women will greatly enjoy the sharply sad ...

... ical, historical, political and social, whose inexhaustible riches are mined from the greatest city in the history of the world. As a scholar and as a novelist he has been able to communicate his own joy in the present and past of the place, and to guide ...

... themselves upon teir per spicacity. A bouquet for Messrs. Macmillan, please. They have now reprinted A. G. Macdonell's England, Their England, (6s.) that impeccable piece of sustained wit, nonsense, humour, detailed observation, and blether without which life ...

... adventure and courage. It consists of extracts from the journals and letters o early colonists in the countries we used, as it seemed to us quite properly, to call our colonies. These papers have been edited with an admirable lack of comment by Mr. John ...

... Maryngton and his regiment. He was just too young for World War One, and just too old to be sent overseas for the second. He was a worthy and capable, but not brilliant, ca airy officer, who had no use for machine and was therefore completely out of -lace ...