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The History Of Science

WE are accustomed to date the birth of modern science as coincident with the work of the two Oxford Franciscans—Robert Greathead and Roger Bacon—in the middle of the thirteenth......

A Cricket Reverie

The Book of Cricket Verse. Edited by Gerald Brodribb. (Hart- Davis. 10s. 6d.) MR. GERALD BRODRIBB's anthology of cricket verse covers a field as wide and as varied as the game......

The Unholy Family

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