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East Of Athens By Eric Gifford

The islands and ports of the Aegean and the Levant are the subject of East of Athens (John Gifford, I2S. 6d.), and the author has packed an extraordinary amount of varied in-......

Happy Countries By V. C. Buckley

Mr. Buckley is the typical happy traveller and Happy Countries (Hutchinson, I2S. 6d.) is as cosy and exciting as an evening at the pictures. He describes a recent trip to Scan-......

The Paralysis Of Trade By Percy G. Donald

This is one of those books (Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6c1.) which make one wonder what on earth the publisher was thinking of. It contains a howler, of fact or of logic, on an......

The Making Of Egypt By Flinders Petrie

Professor Flinders Petrie, who at eighty-five can look back over nearly sixty years of archaeological work in Egypt, has done a service to students by preparing this handy......

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By Martin Gutnpert Dr. Gumpert's life of Henri Dunant (Eyre and Spottis- woode, 8s. 6d.) contains so little about the man and so much about his times that it will disappoint......

Keepers Of The Baltic Gates By John Gibbons We Know

by now what to expect when Mr. John Gibbons goes travelling, and Keepers of the Baltic Gates (Hale, Jos. 6d.) will not disappoint his many readers. Of course, he has travelled a......