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Mr. Ra'tcliffe Holmes Gets At Once To Business In His

fascinat- ing book about his journeys through wildest Africa seeking subjects for his giant film Kilimanjaro. His chapters teem with incident. Here and there are shrewd......

Die Aussere Wirtschaftspolitik Osterreich- Iingarns - By...

Sektionschef Pro- fessor Dr. Richard Schuller. (Oxford University Press.) Tins new volume in the Economic and Social History of the World War, which is being published for the......

The South America Handbook, 1926. (south

American Publications, Ltd. 7s. (Id. net.) _ . THE essence of tabloid information about the vast Continent of South America is presented in this well-produced book. The subject......

Impartiality And Interpretation Are Indispensable Weapons

in the historian's armoury ; and Mr. Gwynn shows in this book that he possesses and can wield them both. Few men are so well qualified to write the history of their native land......

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Tins Invaluable Publication Is Not Yet Perfect, Even In Its

fifty-fifth edition. A coinplete list of places where salmon licences are issued in Ireland should be given, for instance. One hotel recommended (Glencolunbkillo, Carrick) has......

London Nights. By Stephen Graham. (hurst And Blackett....

Mn. GRAHAM has bearded a confidence-auctioneer in his den, and obtained from him a fountain pen, a safety razor, a pocket mirror, and a moustache comb. All these for the paltry......

The Magazines

THE Ninete,enth Century opens with a warm defence of the "General Medical Council" by Dr. E. Graham Little. Ignor- ance of its powers, he says, has been disclosed both in......