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Florence Desmond. By Florence Desmond. (harrap. 16s.)

THE early passages .of this book particularly interested me as so much is connected with . the management for which I was working myself. But quite apart from, this, I do like......

Shorter Notices

The Land of Three Worlds. By Everild Young. (Andrew Melrose. 18s.) PERU is such a varied land that it can well be said to be made up of three worlds. It remains, too, a country......

The Blurb On The Dust Jacket Of This Book Gives

readers a pretty fair warning : this is the biography of Henri Dunant, the man who founded the Red Cross Society : but it is also a study in adversity. Miss Hart, in the course......

The Pre-raphaelites In Literature And Art.

By D. S. R. Welland. (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) THE inter-relationship of the arts and more particularly of painting and literature is rare in England ; Dr. Welland is unablo to dis-......

Hugh Latimer. By Harold S. Darby. (the Epworth Press. 21s.)

THE manner of a martyr's death inevitably tends to obscure the significance of his life. Pugh Latimer is remembered rather for having " lighted a candle " on his funeral Pyre......