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Methodism And Politics 1791 - 1851 _ By E. R. Taylor This

is an interesting, if somewhat wrong-headed little book (Cambridge Univ. Press. 7s. M.). To begin with, it is mis- entitled : it .does not. really deal with the relations or re-......

Maternity Services

• By Dame Janet Campbell Dame Janet Campbell, who was forrrierly Senior Medical Officer for Maternity and Child . Welfare to the Ministry of Health, is one of the most......

Godes Peace And The Queenes By Norreys Jephson O'conor.

Codes Peace and the Queenes - (Oxford University Press, 8s. 6d.) is sub-titled " Vicissitudes of a House, 1539-1615." It is a book that no doubt was hard to compile and is......

His Majesty The President

By Ernest Hambloch His Majeity the President (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a study of the disastrous effects of presidentialist government in the republics of South America. Mr.......

Current Literature

FRANCE IN DANGER By Andre Tardieu M. Andre Tardieu has three times been Prime Minister of France, and may hold the post again, though for the moment, owing partly to ill-health,......

Samuel Butler, A Chronicle And An Introduction

By R.. F. Rattray This is a pedestrian account (Duckworth, 5s.) of the main events of Butler's life, of the books he wrote, and how he came to write them. It contains no new......