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The Section Of South African History Covered By This Book

(Bell, 12s. 6d.) is short in time but full and intricate in depth. It begins with a lucid survey of conditions in South Africa before the London Convention of 1884 and traces......

The School Of Night By M. C. Bradbrook

Current Literature Of " Sir Walter Rawley's School of Atheism . . . wherein both Moyses and our Saviour, the Old and New Testament are jested at, and the schollers taught to......

Christmas Cards

- We haVe - from _the Medici Society, the Trustees of the British Museum, Messrs._ J. Ward, Messrs. Heifer, Messrs. C. W. Faulkner,- Messrs. - Michael Joseph and–Messrs.......

After Everest • By T. Howard Somervell

The interest of thi:s book (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.) lies mainly, in its revelation of a charming personality. Mountaineering,' for Mr. Somervell, is, as it should be, a......

Jonathan Wild: Prince Of Robbers By Frederick J. Lyons This

is a readable account (Michael Joseph, 15s.) of the celebrated crook and his . eighteenth-century background. As the material regarding Wild is scanty, the author has plenty of......