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A Napoleon Of Finance

The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). By John Kennedy Winkler. (Knopf. 15s.) THERE exist at the present time .in the United States two great monuments to the memory of the......

Spanish Spirituality

Studies of the Spanish Mystics. Vol. I.I. E. Allison Peers, M.A. (S.P.C.K. 18s.) PROFESSOR ALLISON PEERS' devoted labours in the by-ways of Spanish mysticism place students of......

Fiction

Martyrs IN the names of duty and devotion the very elect are deceived, and Rachel Moon, of Miss Rea's new novel, was not of the very elect. She was an obsessed and self-made......