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Yiddische Momma

The Life of Gliickel of Hameln. Written by herself. Edited by Beth-Zion Abrahams. (East and West Library, 27s. 6d.) HERE is a refreshingly unique seventeenth-cen- tu ry......

Whangpoo

Yellow Creek. By J. V. Davidson-Houston. (Putnam, 30s.) WHANGPOO is our barbarian English way of spelling the Chinese characters signifying YelloW Creek. On the mud-patch north......