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Reminiscences Of An Irish Priest 1 8 4 5-1920 By Canon B. R.

Young, M.A. . Mr. Shane Leslie, in a brief foreword, recommends this little book, Reminiscences of an Irish Priest, 1845-1920 (published by W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk,......

The Real Romanovs By Gleb Botkin The Grand Duchess...

youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, is still alive, having survived the Bolshevik massacre of the Royal family at Ekaterinburg on July 17th, 1918. Such is the contention of......

Northumberland And Durham By Iris Wedgwood . Lady...

if rather slight, book about Northumberland and Durham (Faber, 5s.) is well printed and unusually well illustrated, both with pen drawings by Mr. G. E. Chambers and with......

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The National makes a lively attack, in its "Episodes of the Month," on Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues who are alleged to have tried hard at Ottawa "to prevent any gain to......

Mrs. Chadwick Begins Her Preface By Remarking That "it

may perhaps be an unwise policy to start a book with an explanation or an apology." It would certainly have been ge rmane to explain what was the precise purpose of her boo k,......

Those Who Know Their Motley Will Find That Professor Geyl's

concise and able account of The Revolt of the Netherlands (1555-1609) (Williams and Norgate, 12s. 6d.) puts a very different complexion on the matter. Whereas Motley thought......