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The British South Africa Company Has Celebrated Its...

last October by circulating a privately (and very beauti- fully) printed sketch of its history, written by the president, Sir Dougal Malcolm. The earlier part, up to 1923, is......

Science Front, 1939. By F. Sherwood Taylor. (cassell. 7s....

THIS is a readable account of recent developments in various fields of scientific activity, ranging from industrial research to horticultural science and advances in the......

Handbook Of British Chronology. Edited By F. M. Powicke....

Historical Society. 7s. 6d.) THIS book brings together in a convenient form material otherwise obtainable only in numerous publications, and then sometimes in a less......

Shorter Notices

We Saw Him Act. A Symposium edited by H. A. Sainsbury. (Hurst and Blackett. 2 Is.) We Saw Him Act. A Symposium edited by H. A. Sainsbury. (Hurst and Blackett. 2 Is.) THIS......

Tins Is A Book Which, Popular Though It Might Have

been at any time, will be made doubly so by the black-out. It con- tains the rules of a great variety of card games, for from one to seven or more players, the majority of them......

New Novels

He and His. By Reginald Carter. (Cape. ros. 6d.) Mandragora. By John Palmer. (Gollancz. 8s. 3d.) IT is a happy circumstance when a novelist can address an audience or describe a......