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Biographies Of Living Persons Are Seldom Satisfactory. In...

of Don Alfonso XIII, by Princess Filar, the King's cousin, and Major Chapman-Huston (Murray, 21s.) personal details of interest are overweighted by political argument adverse to......

Current Literature,

Now that France is predominant in Europe, it is mare desirable than ever that . we should try to understand 'her way of regarding the. course of affairs. A . good deal of help,......

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The title of Mr. John Stirling's .Fisking for Troia and Sea- front with Worm and Wet Fly (Philip Allan, 7s. 6d.) sufficiently explains the contents of the little volume, which......

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Wild Beasts To-Day (Sampson Low, 12s. 6d.) is a book to Interest very many grown up people and all boys. The beasts in the European zoos and in the great American and Colonial "......

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Mr. Falconer Madan, as' sub-librarian and then as librarian, was for many years a familiar figure to 'workers inthe Bodleian, and there can have been few who did not resort to......

Nonconformists Were Excluded From The Universities By The...

Uniformity in 1662, but they contrived none the less to maintain a learned ministry. How it was done is explained in detail by Dr. H. McLachlan in English Education ander the......

The Coming Exhibition Cif French Art At Burlington House...

doubtless include some of the fascinating miniatures by Foucquet (1420-81), who worked for Charles VII and Louis Xi and who painted Pope - Eugenius IV. It is fortunate, them......

Reginald Kennedy-cox : An Autobiography (hodder And...

is the story of a man who came to London at the age of twenty-one With the motto : "h propose to write," dallied for -a time with the stage, and eventually was inspired to take......

It Is Difficult To Give An Accurate Description Of The

Gardener's Chap Book, edited by G. H. M. Cox (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.). It . contains an anthology of poetry and prose, " bits and pieces " . which have struck- the editor's......

Photogiaphs Tell Us Mich More About Cultures Toerenf From...

own than a whole library full of scientific monographs. It is a pleasure therefore to see yet another volume of Mr. A. M. Duggan-Cronin's photographic studies of The Bantu......