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• The Lost Magic

The Story of Axel Munthe. By Gustaf Munthe and Gudrun Uexhiill. (John Murray. 18s.) THE authors of this memoir quote a Swedish writer who once remarked that had the Czar and the......

The Synthesis Of Landscape

Richard Wilson. By W. G. • Constable. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 70s.) ENGLISH Landscape painting is as unique as the English weather— and indeed the two are closely connected.......

Holidays In France •

French Life and Landscape. Volume Two : Southern France. By Alfred Firth. (Elek. 18s.) Normandy and Britanny. By Ralph Dutton. (Batsford. 18s.) The man who undertakes to write a......