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A Smell Of Our Native Earth

Parish and Empire : Studies and Sketches. By Jack Simmons. (Collins. I8s.) LIKE several other things in history, these studies are divided into three parts,—parochial, national......

Aesthetics Of British Railways

THERE ought really to be an Academy of Railway Writers, and, if there was, Mr. Hamilton Ellis would be its obvious President. Many of the other possible members have at least......

Watching People In Spain

THIS book is wholly delightful, and ever since opening it I have becn wondering quite why. It has no illustrations, beyond a few rather nice little drawings which are used as......