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Places And People

Biographical Essays 1790 - 1890. By Sir Edward Boyle, Bart. (Oxford University Press. 8s. tid.) Ste EDWARD tells us that none of the essays in his volume have any claim to be......

The Elian Test

Tanganyika Memories. By Gilchrist Alexander. (Blackie. 10s. 6d.) From a Colonial Governor's Note - Book. By Sir Reginald St. Johnston, K.C.M.G. (Hutchinson. 128. (Id.) Smell of......

Mohammed, The Poet

THIS translated volume on the Apostle of Allah and his teach- ing is the most scholarly and the most readable account since the work of Mark Sykes. It briefly but adequately......