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The Grand Tour In South America

Eight Republics in Search of a Future. By Rosita Forbes. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) MISS ROSITA FORBES describes racily and well the eight South American republics which she visited in......

American History

A History of the American People to the Civil War. By James Truslow Adams. (Routledge. 18s.) Ma. ADAMS'S History is a popular text-book -for American leaders. Its chief interest......

A Jacobite Poet

IN 1679 the Duchess of York, Mary of Modena, visited Cambridge University. She was a little over twenty, very graceful and witty and cunning. Even Burnet found it hard to speak......