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The Teaching Of History

"A VAGUE dissatisfaction with the history he was teaching in school," which Mr. McNicol indicates as the starting-point of his enquiries, is too common an experience among......

The Wrong Gorky

Tim volume was prepared for publication in Russia. Its editor is a specialist on Gorky, well known in his own country ; and his aim was to give characteristic extracts from the......

The Cult Of Sermonizing

The Cult of Power : Essays. By Rex Warner. (John Lane. 7s. 6d.) THE first of Mr. Rex Warner's essays gives this book its title, and introduces the thetne—" the conflict between......