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The Setting Sun

THE " decline " of which Mr. Tilley treats in this scholarly' and conscientious volume covers half the long reign of Louis XIV. It was the period in which Louis took upon......

A Great Trilogy Ashanti Law And Constitution. By Captain R.

S. Rattray. (Clarendon Press. 25s.) ONCE again Captain Rattray has placed us heavily in his debt. The present volume completes a great Ashanti trilogy and rounds off the......

The Discovery Of " Long Will"

A VERY important little book has recently been published by the Oxford University Press. In it Mr. Allan II. Bright, for the first time with any certainty, gives a habitation......