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A Tropical Island

The Island of the Swan. By Michael Malim. (Longmans. 16s.) THE Island of the Swan is the old Portuguese name for Mauritius, where, shortly after the end of the war, Mr. Malim......

The Free Churches In Perspective

" POTTED history " is proverbially dull, a mass of events unillumined by the sidelights which make the human scene a living reality. If to that is added the tiresomeness of......

Adventurer And Emperor

THE sixty-four years of the life of Napoleon HI should attract the dramatist as well as the historian. They offer an extraordinary contrast of light and-shade. They were spent......

Twentieth-century Musicians

Musical Trends in the Twentieth Century. By Norman Demuth. (Rockliff. 35s.) Tins is an ambitiously planned book, covering an enormous field of music, and professing, as the......