... 1 m i 1 THf CL.HMAX OF TIE FFSTHVF SEAS0M S The acrobatic Remos midgets, one of the thrilling turns at the Bertram Mills Circus which is delighting children young and old at Olympia during the festive season The eternal charm, thrill, and allure of the Sawdust Ring is markedly in evidence this year in London at Olympia, where the combined attractions of daring, humour, and skill are presented ...

... MUCH OLDER than the AZTECS THE TO-ACHTO- PAYOTLACA Carved Stone Tablets and Ancient Civilisation in the Valley of Mexico By DUDLEY R. HOOPER In Mexico and Central America are located perhaps the more complete remains of the older prehistoric civilisations of the world. The American con tinents, however, witnessed a civilis ation before the soils of Europe and Africa were trodden by the foot of ...

... CHANGE (Comes to the (Changeless EAST* Occidental Enterprise has Created a Fear which is Driving the Orient into Strange IF nods and Pastures New By H. PRESTON GILES The proverbially changeless East is in process of undergoing important changes, as a result of the effects on the East of the progress that is being made in every direction in the West. Unly one thing could bring about this ...

... I NEW YEAI JESTS. By ELI CRAIG It is always more difficult to entertain New Year guests than any others. Surfeited with the cheer that Yuletide brought they are hard please. Booking on any January entertainment- as an anti-climax they are about as impossible to mix as cocktails and lobster. Even so you can stage New Year ent ertaic ments quite successfully if you are discreet in yar choice of ...

... How Englishwomen live Abroad (II) PENANG: The Garden of the East By STELLA KNIGHT. They passed by your window about six in the morning on their way to the market, quarrel ling amiably in Malay; and you sighed as you lay dozing in the whiteish gloom of the mosquito net round your bed, and hoped that the cook would not roll out the chicken rissoles for lunch on his bare chest to-day as you ...

... Buxton ifor Winter Sport The Derbyshire Spa which Combines Switzerland with Carlsbad By FRED h CHAPPLE A weekly feature devoted to the interests of travel at home and abroad EDITED BY CRAWFURD PRICE The first three months of the year, usually in January and March, are the best periods during which one can enjoy winter sports in Buxton, although many hundreds of visitors spend Christmas in this ...

... . Figures at the Luncheon held by the Bribery and Secret Commission Prevention League Japan's Delegates to the Five-Power Conference: Europe's Beauty Queen Weds: A Figure of the Hunting Field 4? WHERE HUNTING WAS DELAYED BY FROST: Mrs. Maurice CAutterbuck at the meet Oj the North Warwickshire at Woolscott, near Rugby VISCOUNT GLENAPP: A guest at the luncheon held at the Savoy Hotel to mark the ...

... FROM OUTSIDE ITALl 7HAT the WORLD has SENT to the Great Italian Art \tion at Turlington House From Firmidls i virgin and child ^Duecio. This exquisite primitive tempera on wood, by a thir teenth-- fourteenth-century artist, hangs in the first gallery. It was lent by M. Adolphe Stoclet 1W )Ro d ...

... The Passing of ex- President Loubet The Pope s Pirst Emergence Japan Honours America s Unknown Warrior Demolition in Boston Mass. THE PASSING OF THE MOST POPULAR OF FRENCH PRESIDENTS The ob- sequies in the town of Montelimart of ex- President Loubet, who was associated with the late King Edward in the creation of the Entente JAPAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO U.S.'S UN KNOWN WARRIOR The former Premier of ...

... Striking Pictures Displaying Life in the Soviet Navy Scenes from the Chinese Front The revelations of the astonishing behaviour permitted by the powers that be to sailors in the Russian Navy will come as a good deal of a shock to those nurtured in the traditions of our Senior Service. The lack of discipline and even the character of the amusements indulged in by the Jack Tars of Muscovy ...

... HISTORY'S Greatest HORSEMAN. The Unique Pictorial Record of the Exploits of Graf Moritz Sandor Graf Moritz Sandor, who was born over a century ago, was the last of the daring cavaliers who undertook breakneck follies merely for the thrill of the danger. Known all over the world as the most celebrated horseman, he was so notorious that the Viennese called him the Devil's Riding Master, and ...

... WATCH and WARD in the LIGHTHOUSE TOWER Through the Storms of December at the Channel's Mouth A SENTINEL OF THE SEA The Long- ships Lighthouse two miles off shore at Land's End, seen from the mainland a few days ago. At times the Atlantic rollers run so high that it disappears from view in a cloud of spray relieved at LAST The light house-keepers at the Vieille Lightl louse off the stormy coast ...