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The Archaeology Of Ireland. By R. A. S. Macalister....

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Is Jesus God ? By Charles J. Burrough, With Preface

by Leighton Pollan. (Skeflington. 2s. 6d.)—This book attempts to reply in simple form to the question posed in the title. After a statement of the traditional answer as......

Politicians And Moralists Of The Nine- Teenth Century. By...

Faguet. Translated by Dorothy Galton. (Ernest Benn. 15s.)—M. Faguet had a faculty of bright portraiture, an ability to illustrate the man from his work and the work from the......

A History Of Peeblesshire. Edited By J. W. Buchan And

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A Commentary On Plato's " Timaeus." By A. E. Taylor.

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Aunt Isabel's Lover. By Marion Fox. (john Lane. 7s. 6d.)—the

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