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Essays In Experience

A Bow at a Venture. By Angus Watson. (Independent Press. 8s. 6d.) No one, I suppose, can do the Samuel Smiles trick in modern dress without being dubbed unctuous and pious. Why......

Victorian Conglomerate

THIS book, very pleasantly produced, contains a series of talks from the B.B.C. Third Programme given by fifty well-chosen, and in some cases eminent, speakers. Whether such an......

The Elizabethan Household

Delightes for Ladies. By Sir Hugh Plat. With Introductions by G. E. and K. R. Fussell. (Crosby Lockwood. 15s.) HERE are more than " delightes for Ladies " ; the book, well......