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Two Famous Towns

The Destruction and Resurrection of Pompeii and Herculaneum. By Egon Caesar Conte Corti. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 25s.) Counrr Court is among those rather uncommon historians......

A Life Of Wells

H. G. Wells. By Vincent Brome. (Longmans. tss.) MR. BROME'S book about Wells might conceivably have served a useful purpose because, as his publishers state on their dust-cover,......

Louisa Ramo

Ouida. By Eileen Bigland. (Jarrolds. 16s.) How sad it is that Louisa Rame—" Ouida " was her childish pronunciation of her i own first name—should have become, for us and for her......