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The Curse Of Old London The Plague In Shakespeare's London.

By F. P. Wilson. (Clarendon Press. 12s. Cd.) • IN Shakespeare's day the plague was as painfully familiar as cancer or pneumonia is now. What we remember as the Great Plague of......

A Restoration Wit Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701). By V. De

Sole Pinto, M.A. (Constable. 21s.) Mn. PINTO has produced a pleasant book on the life and Works of one of the best known of the Restoration wits, Sir Charles Sedley, whose long......

The Three Royal Monkeys. By Walter De La Mare. New

Editien. (Faber and Gwyer. 3s. 6d.) UMMANODDA or Nod, for short, was a little mullar-mulgar (royal monkey) who, after his mother died, went with his two brothers, Thumb and......

Children's Books Reviewed By Children

Dr. Dolittle's Caravan. By Hugh Lofting. (Cape. 7e. 6d.) I no think that Pippinella's story was interesting. I think the book' is ' very nice indeed; but I think that the green......