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A Dictionary Of British Sculptors. By Colonel Maurice...

(Rockliff 50s.) This is a useful book, which records our sculptors from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries and will astonish most of its readers by the number of its......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS FOR some weeks the meagre flow of Stock market business has reminded me of the anonymous verse on the illness of King Edward VII:— Along the wire th' electric message......

Shorter Notices

The Philosophy of Science. By Stephen Touhnin. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) MR. TOULMIN'S excellent little book comes into the gad-fly category ; that is to say it stings the mind to......