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The Work Of The Naval Airmen In The Eastern Mediterranean

and the Red Sea during the War has never been described until now. How incessant and effective it was we may see in Mr. C. E. Hughes' clever and amusing book, Above and Beyond......

Is There A Large Public, As Mr. Oscar Parkes, The

author of The World's Warships (Sampson Low, 7s. 6d.) believes, " who are closely following the trend of naval affairs without wishing to go too deeply into details of the......

A Library List

REFERENCE Boons :-Northern Italy. By Karl Baedeker (Allen and Unwin. 16s.)-Handbook on Mountain Ski-ing. By Colonel G. Bilgeri. (Chiswick Press. 6s.) - The Fleet Street Annual,......

Fiction

Warnings Bottom Dogs. By Edward Dahlberg. Introduced by D. H. Lawrence. (Putnams. 7s. 6d.) Children of the Earth. By Ethel Mannin. (Jerrold& 7s. 6d.) AT a time when the European......

Lord Mersey, Who Was Still Mr. Clive Bighazn When He

wrote The Kings of England, 1066-1901 (Murray, 218.), had the laudable desire to make a portrait gallery of our monarchs, as a protest against the dehumanizing character of the......

Many Holiday Pilgrims Find Their Way To The Lonely Saxon

church of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, built on the site of the Roman fort of Othona that guarded the Blackwater estuary. They, and others, will be glad to read the Rev: Herbert......

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(Continued from page 94.) The true Londoner who loves the historical associations of his town will never tire of Defoe's Tour Thro' London (1725) (Batsford, £8 8s.), which Sir......