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An Undesirable Controversy

Robert Edwin Peary : a Record of his Explorations, 1886-1909. Ma. GORDON HAYES has equipped himself for the task of criticizing polar explorers, and in such leisure as his West......

Two Modes Of History

Two very remarkable volumes, issued almost simultaneously by the University Presses of Cambridge and Oxford, illustrate two diverse conceptions of the way in which history......

Maritain On Art

The Philosophy of Art : being " Art et Scholastique." By Jacques Maritain, translated by the Rev. J. O'Connor, with an CONSIDERING his great reputation in France, the work of......