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We Have One More Children's Book, Which We Did Not

review in our Christmas Book Supplement, which we should like to recommend heartily to all mothers and friends of children from between the ages of five and ten ; it is Mrs.......

Mr. Beckles Willson Arrived In London At The Age Of

twenty- two, an ambitious young Canadian, determined to conquer Fleet Street. The year was 1892: " I had burst into a London gorged with literary novelties : Kipling, Marie......

" Crime Is Largely A Matter Of Digestion ; A

well-cared alimentary canal is the surest means of promoting bene- volence." We have seen this urged before, as an excuse for a new cookery book, and it is true, if not the......

The Fmal Verdict On Zimbabwe, In Rhodesia, Is Given By

that experienced archaeologist, Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson, in Antiquity for December. (Gloucester. John Bellows, 5s. 6d.). As she told the British Association last summer,......

We Know Of No Hunter Who Can Write With Such

economy and simplicity as Mr. F. L. Puxley. Many books appear on animals and how to destroy them, and nearly all of them are bad. It is rarely that we find a book like In......

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The Competition

WE recently asked a contributor to write an article containing suggestions for a Better World, and we received the following reply :—" A short recipe would be : murder half the......

Mr. E. T. S. Dugdale Has Done Great Service To

all who are interested in pm-War diplomacy by making an orderly selection from the German Diplomatic Documents, 1871-1914, of which the German Foreign Office has printed many......

Some Books Of The Week

IN one form or another the slave trade is always with us, and this (if no other- reason were forthcoming) would suffice to justify Great Britain and the Slave Trade, by W. L.......