The general reader cannot but find the book very "interesting. Residents of Shanghai learn from ita great deal institutions by Which their city Burope and upon it for accurate formation, in which, all too frequently. they "have shown deeply 10 bbe regretted that a scholar of such excellent talent as De, Tehang Tens aman from. whom his country aid his friends might have expected wwe been taken is work by death, King Penguins 16 colour plates riginats "bu Redoute'. joven and text by J. Ramsbottom Penguin Books, Harmondswort Biwe, on Lake, Tuver and "with 16 color plates, after too se! Bias John Gould"
Books, 178 development of the old "sixpennie how dressed up ina new yard, Mus trated wit for the sum of one s may indeed take pride of place as pioneers in the art of giving a real something for what is almost nothing when Jeosts of reproduction are concerned. Here ave some details of two of them.
Occult Themes ario® oF THe Wome By Vera Alder. "Ider, London. 76, roienos or Mais Aleem These two books are interpretations of various occult themes, which desi primarily' with the lopment of the world, and the animal and the human races, the mind as It is oval ig toward what the theosophist, the divine cycle.
Vera Alder divides her book into two sections: "Review of Spiritual "Review Science." She makes the point that in the world's accumu A Book of Roses"—t a hiss torical introduction which will be joyed by all rose lovers, and which fives as much information in 18 pagex usually contained in about 200 ayes of padding: it tells how the rose became the emblem of England how single roses were developed double roses: how roses can be n from seeds, and how ™....the rose doth deserve the chiefest "ud most principal place among all flowers whatsoever..." there ave 16 coloured plates which show the rose in all its) beauty and descriptions hich give most interesting detail, 'A Forerunner great cleavage between the so-called spiritual knowledge and so-called material science. She writes in an attempt to bre: down this unnecessary cleavage. the opinion of the reviewer this alm not been accomplished: rather, problems than the fare set before the
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