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Warfare By Night The Filibusters : The Story Of The

Special Boat Service. By John Lodwick. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) " I sliALL be quite content," writes Captain Lodwick with an agree- able absence of ambition," if I have shown how, in......

Historian Of The Family

Sir Richard Lodge. By Margaret Lodge. (Blackwood. 21s.) THE greatest characters, it seems, show a quality of the unexpected ; of not quite fitting into life ; of being in some......

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THE publishers claim for this book the merit of " great topical interest," and this is a fair and true claim. There could be no more attractive, or more provocative,......