22 NOVEMBER 1935, page 48

A Seventeenth-century Philanthropist

John Defiers, 1654-1725. His writings reprinted by A. Rah' Fry. (Casson. 6s.) Joins Bra.ixas was certainly one of the most. remarkable men of the later Stuart and Revolutionary......

The Arctic Trade Route

THE story of the wreck of the Chelyuskin ' among the ice floes near the Bering Straits brought world-wide attention to bear. upon the Arctic Ocean. Only comparatively few,......