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The Articulate Witness

Near East. By Cecil Beaton. (Batsford. 125. 6d.) How rarely an the spectators of great scenes invoke their memoryI, To our hungry questions they only answer, " It was a hell of......

Books Of The Day

Behind the Times Keep the Lamps Burning. By Dr. J. Van Den Tempel. (Robert Hale. los. 6d.) THESE books overlap, since each is concerned with the general problem of world......