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We Must Briefly But Warmly Commend Dr. J. R. Tanner's

Constitutional Ddcuments of the Reign of James I (Cambridge University Press, 16s.), which continues his well-known collection of Tudor documents. The selection is judicious,......

Mr. E. G. Boulenger, Author Of Animals In The Wild

and in Captivity (Ward, Lock, 7s. 6d.), has held office in the Zoo for nearly twenty years and is therefore in a position to chat very pleasantly and with authority about......

* * * * If Catherine De Medici Had Decided,

like Elizabeth, in the critical years 1560-62 to adopt a religious pcilicy independent of Rome, the whole course of French, and, indeed, of European history, would have been......

The Bank, So Familiar To Londoners, Is Now Being Rebuilt.

Its details are well recorded in the fascinating quarto of photographs and plans, with a short historical sketch, prepared by Mr. H. Rooksby Steele and Mr. F. R. Yerbury, and......

The Oldest Regiment In The British Army Assuredly Needs No

artificial stimulus to the maintenance of its esprit de corps, but we may regard Major Gould Walker's The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War (Seeley, Service, 12s.......

When The Turkish And Egyptian Fleets Were Sunk By The

Allied squadrons, at Navarino, in October, 1827, after Can- ning's death but as the outcome of Canning's policy, the cause of Greek freedom was substantially advanced. But, as......

The Competition

SUPPOSING your bookshelf came to life and you were able to invite six characters from English fiction to dine with you, which six would make the most interesting party and with......

Sir Richard Temple's Painstaking Research And His...

the Hakluyt Society of the Binerey Papers litve enabled him in The Tragedy of the Worcester, 1704-5 (Bettn, 25s.), to illumine definitely and once for all another dark corner of......

Answers To Questions Upon Familiar Terms ,

1. A wife whose husband is temporarily absent. Possibly "a widow de grcice," by courtesy ; or possibly, as resembling a horse temporarily "turned out to grass."-2. Greek,......