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Evening Memories By Sir Herbert Maxwell

Politician, sportsman, naturalist, landowner, and author, Sir Herbert Maxwell, at eighty-seven, looks back, in Evening Memories (MacLehose, 16s.) , over a well-spent life. and......

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