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slain," crambe repetita or toujoun • perdrix are tags which enter the mind when the eye lights upon a book entitled The Truth about Dreyfus (Putnam, 7s. 6d.), which Herr Bernard......

" History Is Bunk," Said (or Is Reputed To Have

said) Mr. Henry Ford, and when an American at Kenilworth remarked to Mr. Frank Binder " I see no sense in studying the charaeters of men, nor in reading descriptions of things......

Since War Letters Of Fallen Englishmen There Has Been No

book published with so vivid and intimate a sense of the actuality of war as Letters from Armageddon (Williams and Norgate, 15s.)—a series of letters collected by Mrs. Grant,......

Captain Roger Pocock Is A Curious Mixture Of Qualitie Human

and superhuman, and a varied series of adventurous events has followed him through life. Thus, this second instalment of his autobiography, Chorus to Adventurers (Lam 12s. is of......

A New Volume Of The Broadway Mediaeval Library, Edited By

G. G. Coulton and Eileen Power, Little John of Saintre, by Antoine de la Sale (Routledge, 15s.) suggests some hours of enjoyment, a suggestion which this time is only partly......

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It has now become so customary to " cross " Africa (and, of course, to write a fat book about it) by aeroplane, motor, river-steamer and railway-train, that the world seems to......

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The Indian Slate Railways Magazine for February (from 57 Haymarket,-Is. 8d. post free) 'contains a - prefatory note by the Viceroy in which he expresses the opinion (in which......

Mr. W. H. Boulton's The Romance Of The British Museum

(Sampson Low, 12s. 6d.) ought to send some of its readers to Bloomsbury to see for themselves some of the many things that the author describes. He gives an outline of the main......

A Review Which Shall Deal Faithfully And Also Competently...

the practical application of Christian principles to the problems of contemporary society is sure to find many interested readers. In Christendom: a Journal of Christian......