"Arthur Lionel Smith: Master of Balliol," written by his wife, is an excellent biography, which truly' portrays the great tutor and lecture er, "A.L." had a great brain but there was nothing of the dry-as-dust professor about him, as the following anecdote, taken from the book from among many others, "will show The scene is a lecture room. AI.
Arrived at the note-taking slaze, noticed show jump notice of the illustrations which are as numerous as they are amusing.
Well, the reader can suppose that "Colonel," having decided to. For Iie sin Was not. exactly" reverend Was aghast, but retu proofs: The old mar they were. hu That is. the class revived by: aughter resumed its The descendant of a long Tine of seafaring men, Capt, "Bob" Bart-with the 200 illustrations by "The Wa. of the Regiment," but for the rest the book must be read to he really enjoyed and appreciated for the sound advice given in such pleasant form.
World wide interest has been his hed. His. story is a record of adventures. He was master of Peary's ship when Peary failed to reach the North Pole; and master of the ship four years-later when Peary was successful, He has gone on almost all the important Arctic expeditions from the United States in this century, and he is one of the eight men in the world to have been awarded the Hubbard Medal. Recently Capt. Bartlett set forth again, this time master of the ship taking the Stall-MeCracken Expedition to Si benn. This book will shortly be obtainable locally.
From the Home papers we learn that Dr, Rosenbach has sold the' manuserpt of Lewis Carroll's "Alice Wonderland" to on unnamed buyer in America, for the sum of £30,000 1g X profit of almost 100 per cent, The now owner of the is said, will take the roused of late by the wonderful it of those three intrepid pt. Herminn Kochi, Maj Fitzmauriep and' Baron ther von Huenefeld, and thus, a book just rend Three Musketeers of the Air," by these three will be keenly sought alter. The book contains the individual autobiographies of three heroes, Baron von Huenefeld emerges he-fore the reader of his history, as a, man of artistic arid literary' tastes, poet, x gallant figure who has never let ill health deter him from action, dvecause "we have only one life to live." But Major Fitemaurice was bred to soldiering. At the age of 6 ran away to join the army. A flyer, later, in the Trish State Aviation Corps, his is the terse account of one to whom perils re all in the days work, Capt Khoehl is the most reticent, the most silent, and the most inserut~ able of the three, He was the pilot of the "Bremen." In second section of the book the three men write in the United xiily go to there." Dr, Rosenbaeh it will be re-hy's in April this year for £15,400, having made a special trip to England in order to be present at the sale. The INS was originally presented by Lewis Carroll in the form a "home-made" book to Alice together the story of their great effort, the first Transatlantic flight, from east to west Their thoughts, their feelings, their sensations and tual experiences during their hazardous hours in the air between Baldonnel Aerodrome and Greenly Islund are gil set down for the reud~ cer, and the book is concluded with fan account of the tour undortal by these men in the United sta It can fairly be suid that some-jing entirely unprecedented in the of "horsey" books has just set before Shanghai readers.
Colonel to Subultern: Some Keys for Horseowners," by Lieut. Col. M, PF. MeTaggart, vase. con sists of a soties of letters from a retired cavalry colonel to his so:
buying, training, and Joking after @ mount, together with advice 'The following. is, list, compiled from information kindly' given by well known local booksellers, of the Joon enjoying the greatest sale in Shanghai ducing the past Fiction:—"Extremex Meet," by Compton Mackenzie, 2
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