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Our Mothers And Their Daughters

The English Miss Today and Yesterday. Alicia M. Percival. (Harrap. los. 6d.) MISS PERCIVAL has produced an exceedingly readable book. It is, in fact, a serious history of girls'......

Travels With A Donkey In Discomfort

The Island of Zeus : Wanderings in Crete. By Ralph Brewster. (Duckworth. 15s.) " RALPH BREWSTER'S first succes de scandale, The 6,000 Beards of Athos," we read on the dust-cover......