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Footnotes To History

History of England. By E. L. Woodward. (Methuen. 4s. 6d.) To write in 65,000 words a history of Britain from prehistoric times to the end of the first German war involves so......

Dr. Inge On Mysticism

DR. INGE is in his eighty-eighth year. In his preface he imagines the critics saying, " He has said all this before, and said it better. He has no sympathy with the hopes and......

A Family Chronicle

John Fergusson, 1727-1750. By James Fergusson. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) Jamas FERGUSSON is perhaps best known as the editor of an anthology of Scots verse which seeks to demonstrate......