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Michael Verran. By the Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot, P.C. (Epworth Press. 5s.) WHEN Carlyle read in The Examiner a brief account of the heroism of a Cornish miner and his miraculous escape from what had seemed certain death, he wrote to John Sterling, staying at Falmouth, to find out more about it and to open a subscription list. Nobody could be better qualified than Mr. Isaac Foot, with his own many-sided interests, to tell the story of the miner, Michael Verran, both in its setting against the Methodist family-life of the time and as it brings together three famous people: " The first Carlyle, who still remains," as Mr. Foot says, " when Frederick the Great is left un- read and the lamentable comment on the American Civil War is charitably forgotten" ; that unsatisfactory " inheritor of unfulfilled renown," John Sterling ; and Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, whom it is always as much of a pleasure to meet in letters as it must have been in life. An unpublished letter from Carlyle is included, and a facsimile of the subscription list which bears the signatures of many members of Cornish families still well-known in the West Country. What I Saw in Poland 1946. By H. Foster Anderson. (The Windsor
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