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SHORTER NOTICES.
"Mary Popplns," by P. L Travers, is the latest addition to nursery literature, and an excellent one too. All children should gasp with delight at the strange doings of Mary Poppins, the nursemaid who came with the east wind and went sailing away from Michael and Jane (not to forgot the twins) with her umbrella when the wind was in the west. Mary Poppins was taciturn, a disciplinarian but the children loved her because she had a way with her. And she led them into queer
fantastic adventures, although she was also a Cockney who loved a match-man. It is no wonder that some of these stories when broadcast in England in the national pro gramme, received the first votes as favourite in the nursery. The drawings by Mary Shepard show that talent is hereditary, since she is the daughter of Ernest H Shepard of "Punch" and Christopher Robin fame (The Roycroft)
"-he Disarmament Dcadlc__" tells ol the stoiy of the confcience and the developments in international affairs from Novetnbci, 1031 in- cluding the îoles played by MacDonald, Hitlei
Roosevelt, Mussolini and Lltvlnoff the April tiagedy, when the e\-Allics let Biucnlng go back empty-handed to Germany to glv e Hitler his ooportunlty, the December 'Equal Rights" Agiccment, and the final wlthdiawal of Ger- many from the confcience Mr J W Wheeler Bennett, the authoi. Is an authoiity on dls ai marnent, and speaks with inside knowledge He writes clearly, impartially, but fiankly and the result is a book which has especial \ alue at the mement when a knowledge of the background of the German stiuggle foi equal- ity Is necessary io understand fully the latest nevelopmenls In the Anglo-Ficnch Agierment In London (Routledge League of Nations Union 1
' The House of Routledge bi f a Mumb\
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fashion the sloiv of how Qeorae Routledge |
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Ine house how he »vas a ploneet In bringing ' MteiMinc to the million by his shilling "Rail- way' spile« of popula i fiction ho'v he paid flulwei Lytton JCJOOnn for Hie right to publish his novels how he seemed the lights of such .»mt-Jcan suthois as longfellow and Emerson, Blet Huile and Mark Twain, how he took advantage of the absence of copyilght between the two nations and how his case «gainst Sampson Low became the basts of leclpiocal íelations in the Copyright Act of 1891, to- gether with a histoiy of Kegan Paul, Tiench, Tiubner, and other firms which eventually be- came associated with Poutledge's Among the modern publications are the brilliant "To-day and 'lo-morrow" series. The centenaiy his- toiy is full of literaiy til-bits interesting to book lovets (Routledge, Roycroft )