... twentieth- century property. To him the paper owes its being as a national daily newspaper and register, the epitome of the world designed for the in formation of the whole range of executive, pro fessional and political men and women who, by their calling ...

... Ceylon) by Ravanna the ten- headed Giant King. Ravanna was the better able to do this because he used a flying machine when he travelled about the world. It was now necessary for Rama to go to Ceylon and recover his bride. He made an alliance therefore ...

... and has also been decorated by the Regent of Iraq. His Arabian Journey (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) tells many stories of the Arab world, of Ibn Saud's kingdom, of the Tigris, of the Red Sea Coast of Arabia and of Southern Cyrenaica, and I recommend it to you ...

... his death in 1948 at the age of thirty-one: the loss to modern literature has been immeasurable. He had as his friend tells us in the foreword to the last novel suffered thirteen years of chronic and painful ill ness caused by a road accident in which ...

... may not, with its horrific subject, be as popular, but it does mark an advance in his style and in his effectively economical use of words. He still has his little foible of overworking one chosen word. The scene is a Catholic mission in Kashmir soon after ...