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Comic Turn

Between Then and Now. By Alba de Uspedes. Translated by Isabel Quigly. (Cape, I3s. 6d.) The Bitter Conquest. By Charity Blackstock. (Hodder and Stoughton, 15s.) To Keep This......

Boyle's Law And God's

Robert Boyle: Father of Chemistry. By Roger Pilkington. (John Murray, 18s.) Da. PILKINGTON is a scientist, not a historian. His brief popular life of Boyle is therefore......