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Russian Turkestan Is One Of The Most Fascinating Places In

the world. Its names—Samarcand, Tashkent, Bokhara—spell enchantment and carry a fragrance peculiarly their own. The old trade routes, the camels bringing to the Caspian the rich......

The League Year Book, 1932

In his foreword to The League Year Book, 1932 (First Annual Edition, Nicholson and Watson, 12s. 6d.), Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, welcomes it......

Carlyle By Emery Neff

Mr. Neff's attitude towards Carlyle is not that of the ortho- doxly faithful. He has, to begin with, the merit, denied to the majority of Carlyle's previous critics and......

Current Literature

" Almost with one consent the Jacobites declared that they ought for God, King, and country, and it does not follow use others saw things differently that the claim was false."......

The Most Recent Recruit To The Now Popular Epistolary...

is the late Charles Ricketts, whose Recollections of Oscar Wilde (Nonesuch Press, 15s.), presented in the form of letters to an imaginary French writer, Jean Paul Raymond......