Abstract
SIR JOSIAH STAMP is known to all as the president of the executive of the L.M.S. Railway, and as a leading authority on the theory and practice of public finance. Apparently he has two major forms of relaxation. One is the reading of books on all possible subjects, from the Law Reports to the textual criticism of the New Testament, and from seventeenth century books on morals to the latest publications in physics, biology, economics, psychology and philosophy. The other is giving addresses to universities and educational societies, both in Great Britain and in North America, on topics appropriate to these bodies. His latest book is a synthesis of these two hobbies. It welds together in a continuous argument the themes of perhaps twenty speeches and talks delivered on various occasions during the past few years; and it contains the cream of his reflections upon his ‘holiday reading’, amply supported with quotations and comments.
Ideals of a Student
By Sir Josiah Stamp. Pp. 240. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1933.) 8s. 6d. net.
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FRASER, L. Ideals of a Student. Nature 133, 157–158 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133157a0
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