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The World's Economic Future By A. Loveday And - Others "

What seems to me to give special value to this series," says Mr. D. H. Robertson in his appetising introduction to this collection of Halley Stewart lectures (Allen and Unwin,......

Kitsons Of Leeds : 1837-1937 By Edwin Kitson Clark

Colonel Kitson Clark's history of a century-old " firm and its folk by one of them " is much to be commended (Loco- motive Publishing Company, los.). Such books are of interest......

The Voyages Of Cadamosto Edited By G. R. Crone

The narrative of Alvise Cadamosto, the scholarly young Venetian who in 1454-6 made two voyages down the West African coast for Prince Henry of Portugal, is for the first time......

Lion. And Jackal By Frank Brownlee

That science owes much to story-telling for light on primitive thought and culture has been proved time and again from The Golden Bough onwards ; here is further recognition of......

First Things First By Frank Tilsley

The present decade, the " ideological thirties," becomes increasingly manifesto-minded. The impulse to " state where one stands " philosophically, religiously and, above all,......

Current Literature

POST-VICTORIAN POETRY By Herbert Palmer Here is a monument, if not to modern poetry, then to the industry of Mr. Herbert Palmer. His book (Dent, I2S. 6d.) contains 370 pages,......