... business in Mr. Graves' company. From the same publishing house, but in rather different vein, is Laurence Scarfe's ROME (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.). The author, a member of the younger generation of artists, has produced a scrapbook of impressions of the Eternal ...

... who has the reputation of being an able and know ledgeable reporter on Chinese affairs, presents his volume CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD (Victor Gollanez. 21s.). This is a remarkable and at the same time disturbing piece of reporting, on a par with Edgar Snow's ...

... SOME VARIED, RURAL EXCURSIONS Selections from Beach Thomas and from A. G. Street; Miss Rider Haggard's A Country Scrap-Book -By VERNON FANE FOR a great many of us, one of the joys of Sunday morning is reading a particular half-column of graceful prose ...

... VERNON FANE FROM all over the world-- or so we confidently hope-- people will be coming to London this summer, and to greet them, besides the Festival and the newly- flowered face of London, will be a number of books and histories and guides. From these they ...

... enchanting novel, and it has been just what I would have expected from Mr. Charles Morgan. A BREEZE OF MORNING (Macmillan. ios. 6d.) is the story, slight from one point of view, profound from another, of a schoolboy's love and discernment, both of them on ...

... making of his people,, but in the artificial world he has invented for them they ring true. And this lets Gilbert and Sullivan in. For the characters in their operas, living in an even more artificial world, ring true in just the same way. Joseph Surface ...

... indictment of twentieth-century civilisation in one part of the English-speaking world Turning from grave to gay, a warm welcome goes out to Herbert van Thai's selections from EDWARD LEAR'S JOURNALS (Arthur Barker. 21s.) Lear, whose nonsense verse has eclipsed ...

... admirably liberal, erudite and amusing. Certainly Mrs. Raverat lived in one of Cambridge's most en chanting houses, from a child's, if not from a housekeeper's, point of view. Mr. J. C. Smuts has written a biography of the great man who was his father, and ...

... his notice in half a lifetime of keeping a scrapbook. As Mr. Silcock writes in his preface, herein are rhymes with ideas and origins as diverse and remote from each other as the Archbishop of Canterbury from the Moulin Rouge. ...

... written what he calls a scrapbook of the '20's, and has chosen for it the kind of title one might choose at a games-playing party, For Whom the Cloche Tolls (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) The volume itself is in the shape of a small scrapbook and illustrated by the ...

... lead-stealing from country houses, while a few words on French hunting-parties give place to an all-too-brief disserta tion on Thomas Tompion. Perhaps Trifle Hunt would have been a more apt title for this pleasant but rather scrappy scrapbook. Elena Gerhardt ...

... This is a mockery of democracy, and a strong resolution was passed in favour of reform. One of the best speeches from the floor came from Alderman A. M. Watson, of Lancashire, who made the case for re-rating agricultural land and industry. As a farmer ...