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Books Of The Day

Aesthetics of ' Leviathan ' The Aesthetic Theory of Thomas Hobbes. By Clarence De Witt Thorpe. (Oxford University Press. 225. 6d.) WE do not usually associate the name of the......

Russia's Eastern Peoples

Soviet Asia. By E. S. Bates. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) THERE is probably no people which has less racial prejudice than the Russians. This was as true of the Tsar's Empire as it is of the......