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Pamphlets On World Affairs

The Prospects of Civilisation. By Alfred Zimmern. The British Empire. By H. V. Hodson. " Mein Kampf." By R. C. K. Ensor. Economic Self-Sufficiency. By A. G. B. Fisher. (Oxford......

The Modern House

In addition to the obvious relationship between their subjects, these two books bear another similarity—each is badly titled. Rightly or wrongly, the adjective " modern," in an......