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A Short History Of Naval And Marine Engineering By...

Edgar Smith Among the profound changes in man's way of living which the machine age has introduced, the complete transformation of life at sea is one of the most important. The......

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......

Gramophone Notes

THE interest of recent recordings has been unusually dispropor- tionate to their abundance. Strangers to the recording list , have been few, and several of the recordings that......

Slavery Through The Ages By Lieut.-general Sir George...

As Lady Simon observes in a preface, Sir George MacMunn's new book (Nicholson and Watson, I2S. 6d.) will serve a useful purpose by reminding readers that slavery is by no means......

A History Of England By Frederick George Marcham

The author of this book (Macmillan, 18s.) is Professor of English History at Cornell University. He covers his ground from prehistoric times down to the abdication in a little......