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Motoring Notes

The Six-Cylinder Air-Cooled Franklin THE " Spirit of St. Louis " and its intrepid pilot are now world-famous, and a consideration of the factors which led to his success must be......

If Any Reader Has An Autograph Of Button Gwinnett, Who

was born in Gloucester in 1735 and was killed in a duel at Savannah in 1777, let him treasure it above rubies. For this reckless: fellow wag one of the fifty-six American......

Notes For Collectors

SHAKESPEARE still leads in the sale-room as on the stage. Lord Leigh's set of the four Folios--of 1623, 1632, 1664 and 1685—brought the very substantial sum of £6,000 at Messrs.......

A Library List

BIOGRAPHY :---John Mailman, 1755-1826. By W. G. Constable. (University of London Press. 10s. 6d.)---Memoirs of Henry Arthur Morgan. By Iris L. Osborne Morgan. (Hodder and......