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The Royal Artillery Mess, Woolwich, And Its Surroundings

By Lt..-Col. A. H. Burne, D.S.O. This is not only a much more amusing book (Portsmouth Barren, 2s. Gd.) than most of its kind, but far more interesting to the outsider, sheep,......

Fiction

By WILLIAM PLOMER. A CASE can be made out to suggest that it is not a bad thing for the author of a work of art or imagination to remain, anonymous, and certainly one can think......

Terror In The Balkans

From the French of Albert Londres It is not obvioui why this book (Constable, 7s: Gd.) should ever have' been rescued from the oblivion into whiely , the French original had......

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THE PASTURED SHIRE By Lord Justice, Blesser .,. Although the principal , cOmpoSition which shows it is entitled " A Farewell to Poetry," the great Blackstone was a poet ; and -......