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  2. WRITERS AND READERS

    Some publishers make a practice of inserting in each novel they publish a statement by the author that all the characters are fictitious, and have no ...

    Article : 2,226 words
  3. ST. JOHN ADCOCK.

    The death of St. John Adcock a few months ago has cast a shadow over the reading hours of many book lovers. Some of us again have been travelling along ...

    Article : 1,372 words
  4. MEMORABLE HOURS IN HISTORY.

    When men are really engaged in making history they are rarely aware of it. Certain events are destined to become great, but only posterity can determine that ...

    Article : 1,376 words
  5. NEW BOOKS

    Although, according to some scientists, the world as a going concern has a life of a billion years, the subject of the end of the world is of interest to all of us. ...

    Article : 467 words
  6. THE GREEK WAY.

    The average person has little-interest in ancient people. His concern is with the life of to-day, and when the world seems to be rooking beneath our feet there is ...

    Article : 1,476 words
  7. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    How many people know when the old' rhyme Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross first appeared in English literature ? A Mr. Herbert Vaughan, in a ...

    Article : 1,166 words
  8. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY OF TO-DAY.

    Without wishing to be a scaremonegr, I venture to predict that the next five years will be the, most critical in the long history of the public schools of the ...

    Article : 1,755 words
  9. ALASKA

    One of the best bargains the united States has ever made was the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for £1,440,000. Since then the exports from Alaska in ...

    Article : 275 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS.

    "Twickenham Calling" (G. Bell and Sons, London), by Capt. H. B. T. Wakelam, is a book for enthusiastic followers of Rugby football--for spectators as well ...

    Article : 333 words
  11. BEHIND THE ENEMY'S LINES.

    "Missing" (Wm. Blackwood and Sona, Edinburgh), by Talbot Baine Bruce, is the war story of a youthful British flying officer who came down near Liege on 6th ...

    Article : 303 words
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    Advertising : 725 words
  13. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 776 words
  14. SHAKESPEARE.

    "The Swan Shakespeare" (J. M. Dent and Sons. London), in three, volumes, is intended to appeal to those interested in the plays as stage productions. The ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. SPEECHES

    As a rule speeches, and sermons mako dull reeding but "Comments and Criticisms" (Hodder and Stoughton. London), by Sir John Simon, which consists of 24 ...

    Article : 198 words
  16. BROOM-SQUIRES AND CHARLES KINGSLEY.

    Sir,--In Notes from Various Sources." in your issue of last Saturday appeared one in which the late Canon is made to tell the old-time story, about "'The Rival ...

    Article : 263 words
  17. RECENT FICTION.

    For many years the idea of writing a novel dealing with that complex modern organisation a great hotel lared Mr. Arnold Bennett, and in his "Journal 1929" ...

    Article : 847 words
  18. THE DECIBEL SYSTEM.

    [The Noise Abatement Commission of York has issued a report which classifies various distressing noises according to "decibels." Th[?] "hummering on a steel plate" registers 113 ...

    Article : 211 words
  19. THIS TIRED WORLD.

    Lady Actor, M.P., upon whom was conferred the D.C.L. degree at Birmingham University, said:--"If we could evolve a system of ...

    Article : 114 words
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