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Telemachus: By C. Edmund Maurice. (independent Press....

with episodes in early Church history are rarely produced nowadays. The late C. E. Maurice's version of the story of Telemachus, the monk who sacrificed his life in the Coliseum......

I I Cton

A Winter Afternoon's Entertainment WREN Mr. Eden Phillpotts desires to convey his tolerant philosophy of life and art, it is now his custom to relate, with considerable......

Nigeria Under British Rule. By Sir William Nevill M. Geary,

Bart. (Methuen. 16s.)—Sir William Geary has had somewhat unusual opportunities of studying British administration in -West Africa, for he served as Attorney- General of Sierra......

The Judgment Of Franwis Villon. A Pageant- Episode Play In

Five Acts, by Herbert Edward Palmer. (The Hogarth Press. 25s.)—Francois Villon has been much used and abused, both in novels and in plays. His is not the ligure for a......

Iconoclastes, Or The Future Of Shake- Speare. By Hubert...

(Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d.).- - Mr. Hubert Griffith's experience as a dramatic critic has firmly convinced him that nothing is wrong with Shakespeare, and that nothing is wrong,......

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THE . OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; 1783-1917. By S. E. Morison. (Oxford University Press. Two volumes. 32s.)—Professor Morison, of Harvard; who recently occupied the......