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Hedgerow Moralist

'1 wAs born in 1836 in Daventry, Northampton- shire, of very Poor Parents. My Father was a Tailor by Trade and my Mother assisted him in this work. Times were very Bad and they......

Yankee's Burden

In the Days of McKinley. By Margaret Leech. (Hamish Hamilton, 42s.) ON the bloody field of Antietam, in 1862, a nineteen-year-old commissary sergeant drove a team of mules into......

Death And Glory

The Glorious First of June. By Oliver Warner. (Batsford, 21s.) The Glorious First of June. By Oliver Warner. (Batsford, 21s.) GLORIOUS first of June? History is not so sure......