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Art And Craft

An Outline History of Painting. By S. C. Kaines Smith. (The Medici Society. 68.) Degas. An Intimate Portrait by Ambroise Vollard. Translated by R. T. Weaver. (Allen and Unwin.......

Answers To Sudan Questions 1. Mohammedanism-2. Bread...

Sour, grotuld from dura, a grain grown in the country.-3. Dates.- 4 - Sakkiyeh.-5. Gyassa.-6. A village headman.-7. Th° Egyptian Army.-8. Omdurman ; Mr. Winston Churchill.--- -......

Fiction

Old-Fashioned and New STANLEY WEYMAN'S swan song fills us with wonderment that its author could for so many years before his recent death have remained comparatively silent. It......