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The Story Of Minnie

MARIE CORELLI : The Story of a Friendship. By William Stuart Scott. (Hutchinson, 16s.) THE late nineteenth century in England produced a plethora of women writers, good, bad and......

Life For The Tsar

PETER THE GREAT. By C. de Grunwald. (Douglas Saunders with MacGibbon and Kee, 21s.) M. DE GRUNWALD is an old hand at the popularisation of Russian history. Rather too old a......

New Despotism

ONE of the Professors of History at Yale University has been so much impressed by the historic importance of the actions of the Chinese Communist Government that he has devoted......

Untergang

THE RISE AND FALL OF NAZI GERMANY. By T. L. Jarman. (Cresset Press, 25s.) MR. JARMAN has given us a competent history of the Third Reich in The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany.......