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The Functions Of Background

MR. 0:3G is primarily a historian, and history and biography are not identical. Mr. Ogg begins by stating that Dr. Fisher was born in 1865. He then adds that "in the annals of......

Seventeenth- Century Quakers

Tins book has been a labour of love, and in it Mrs. Holdsworth has put together what might be called a short history of the Quakers from about 165o to 1695, with emphasis on the......

U.s.s.r.: Three Views

The Real Soviet Russia. By David Dallin. (Hollis and Carter. 18s.) THE approach of these three authors to their subject could hardly be more varied. Mr. Edward Crankshaw, whose......