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Sir Samuel Romilly

By C. G. Oakes An adequate life of Romilly has long been needed, and While Mr. Oakes has produced a serviceable volume (Allen - and Unwin, 18s.) the need still remains. For it......

Napoleon : And Waterloo E . By Major A. F. Becke

Major Becke's history. of the Waterloo campaign was first published in 1914. It was recognised at .once as the most important book on the subject by an English writer. The new......

The Reign Of Soapy Smith

By William Ross Collier and Edwin Victor Westrate This book (Cassell, 7s. 6d.) has that quality of free innocence with which American adults regard the doings of the bad man......

Cavalier And Puritan This Is An Excellent Book (nelson, 7s.

6d.) in an excellent little series, each of which has been entirely revised and re-set, do that it counts almost as a new book. The first two, Professor C. H. Williams's The......

T He Second Oldest Profession. A: Study Of The....

MANAGER By Ben. L. Reitman Dr. Reitman has been . in and out of prison at least ore hundred times between 1890 and 1915, and during his visits was able to make the acquaintance......

The Jeffersonian Tradition In American Democracy

By Charles Maurice Wiltse Mr. Wiltsc's book (University of North Carolina Press : Oxford University Press, 18s. 6d.) falls into two parts : one which is full, clear and acute,......