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Old Boy

To You Mr. Chips ! By James Hilton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.; ONE remembers them on the occasions of speech days and cricket matches milling anxiously and rather shyly around......

Thomas Hardy : A Study Of His Writings And Their

Back- ground. By W. B. Rutland. (Basil Blackwell. 2ts.) THOMAS HARDY IT is difficult for any one born, like myself, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, to assess the......

Practical Theory

GENERAL works on economics vary in aim as well as in the success with which that aim is achieved. They may be, in the strict sense, introductions, designed to familiarise the......