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Scholar's Lire

Paper Boats: An Autobiography. By E. M. Butler. (Collins, 16s,) JOHNSON'S famous warning, to 'mark what ills the scholar's life assail,' seems curiously remote from the......

Germany's Wrongs

WILL there ever be a time when books on German history are not topical? When Germany's problems—problems largely rooted in the con- sciousness of a people obsessed with history—......