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Blue Pencil

Public School Slang. By Morris Marples. (Constable. los.) ENGLAND, as every good Nazi knows, is a country of savages, and Mr. Marples has done a service to the invader, whenever......

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An Eighteenth Century Journal. By John Hampden. (Mac- millan. t6s.) THE appearance of Mr. John Hampden's Eighteenth Century 7ourrial is well designed to kindle expectancy. After......

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Holy Images. By Edwyn Bevan. (Allen and Unwin. 7S. 6d.) Now that the Hebraic Christianity of the Puritans, which derived its inspiration almost as much from the Old as from the......