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Bushveld Doctor By Louis C. Leipoldt

Dr. Leipoldt's job was Chief Inspector of Schools for the Transvaal. In this book (Cape, zos. 6d.) he dekribes his experiences, and makes generalisations that will probably......

Eleanor Of Aquitaine By Melrich V. Rcsenberg

Mr. Rosenberg is apparently the first to attempt a full-length biography in English (Hamish Hamilton, Jos. 6d.) of the masterful lady who was in turn the Queen to Louis VII of......

No Crown For The Queen By Margaret Mitchiner

Miss Mitchiner's biography of the Young Pretender's wife (Cape, 12s. 6d.) is as readable as most novels and yet scrupulously accurate and fair to all the parties concerned.......

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A LONDON HOME IN THE 'NINETIES By M. Vivian Hughes Older readers in particular will wel- come the third instalment of Mrs. Hughes's delightful autobiography, which covers the......

Boadilla By Esmond Romilly

There have been other records of the part played by the British members of the International Brigade at the siege of Madrid. But Mr. l.omilly's is the most full. He is one of......

Smugglers Of Today By W. J. Makin

This is the golden age of smuggling because it is the age of trade barriers, of jealously guarded frontiers, of pro- hibitions. The author of Smugglers of Today (Jenkins, I2S.......

Knight In Africa ' By C. W. R. Knight

How difficult to write a book about Polemetus bellicosus which will not bore the general public, annoy the ornitho- logist by lack of technical information, or exacerbate the......