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The Childhood Of Louis Xiii Nursery Life Three Hundred Years

Ago. By Lucy Crump. (Routledge. 10s. 6d.) THERE is no such unanswerable puzzle in all literature as the small part that children play in it. The silent nurseries of the past......

Our Industrial Past—and Future

The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927. By G. C. Allen. With an Introduction by J. F. Rees. (George Allen and Unwin. 25s.) Fon a country, as......