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Gloves.* Tins Is A Delightful Little Book. Mr. Beck, Whose

Drapers' Dictionary had already proved his capacity to extract sentiment and philosophy from a haberdasher's store, here writes of gloves, with the knowledge that can only come......

Cocks's Diary In Japan In The Seventeenth Century.* Ist The

history of our relations with the Far East, one of the most interesting episodes, as Mr. Thompson well says in his preface, is that of our early and brief connection with Japan......