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A Round Of Hospitals

Scenes from Institutional Life. By John Vaizcy. (Faber, 10s. 6d.) Mit. VnizEv's book i,s a brief autobiogrtiphica .fragment covering a period of nearly two years in his early......

Head Of Resentment

PROFESSOR PHELPS BROWN knows many of the byways of his subject and has an acute and ques- tioning mind. Consequently his book is full of good things: a neat argument of the......

Before The Mayflower

The Elizabethans and America. By A. L. Rowse. (Macmillan, 25s.) IT was appropriate that Dr. Rowse should be asked to give the first Trevelyan Lectures. He has long proclaimed......