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A Great Engraver

Thomas Bewick : A Bibliography Raisonne. By S. Roscoe. (Oxford University Press. 70s.) • THOMAS BEWICK iS Still so lively an influence on the craft of wood- engraving that it is......

An American Feat

IN February, 1927, Lindbergh stretched a piece of grocery string on a globe in a public library and found that the distance from New York to Paris was 3,600 miles. The aeroplane......

Cities And Men

Cities and Men. By Sir Harry Luke. (Geoffrey Bles. 25s.) SIR HARRY LUKE belongs to a generation which has produced many distinguished men. I did not read the first volume of his......