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European Balance, 1878-1914

The Coming of the First World War. By Nicholas Mansergh. (Long- mans, Green. 15s.) PROFESSOR MANSERGH'S book is sub-titled A Study in the European Balance, 1878-1914. According......

Lord Shaftesbury

Noble Lord: The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Barbara Black- burn. (Home and Van Thal. 15s.) To do this book full justice the reviewer should not have read the Hammonds'......

The History Of Science

The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1600. By H. Butterfield. (Bell. 10s. 6d.) " THE first distemper of learning," said Bacon, " is when men study words and not matter." For this......