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Poemulations

Oar the table he twenty - two little volumes of poems and Critical essays that treat . of verse and of the art of reading it. The booklets are of varying Sizes, of formats that......

The "next" War

Governments and• War. By Major General Sir F. Maurice. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) THESE " Studies for the Conduct of War " were originally delivered as Lees-Knowles Lectures, at......

A Note On Some History Books

A OUST of fresh air blows over the history of India from the late Sir George Forrest's Selections from the State Papers of Lord Cornwallis, 1786-1793 (Blackwell, 2 vols., 36s.......

Books In 'briefest

MM. MonET and Davy, the one a sociologist and the other an . historian, combine in From Tribe to Empire (Kegan Paul, 16s.) to trace how individual practices gradually harden......