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The Annual Register. (longmans. 3os.)

THE Annual Register is, despite its honourable antiquity, less generally known than it should be to persons who for one reason or another need to have at hand a succinct and......

I Wore My Linen Trousers. By Basil Collier. (dent. I5s.)

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What Of The Night ? By Watchman. (hamish Hamilton. 8s.

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Shorter Notices

Tins is an agreeable assembly of articles and causeries by the Metropolitan Magistrate for West London. Dealing mostly with legal and social questions, they are the product of a......

Mediterranean Problems. By Gordon East. (nelson. 2s. -6d.)

THE fact that this small volume includes in its 220 pages no fewer than 54 maps gives some indication of its character, and, it may be added, of its value. Mr. East is a Reader......

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