Navies And Nations. By H. C. Bywater. (constable....
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Reference Books
Massas. Sells' Directory of Telegraphic Addresses (8 Johnson's Court, E.C. 4, 45s.) contains some 130,000 names, and is cross- indexed as usual under the name of the firm,......
Mother Knows Best, And Other Stories. By Edna Ferber....
7s. 6d.)—Terse, vigorous, ironical, and humorous, yet permeated by sincerity and keen imaginative sympathy, these tales—which, strictly speaking, are " sketches " rather than......
Socrates Among His Peers. Three Dialogues By Owen...
Paul. 6s.)-By far the best of these three dialogues is the first, and in Night and the Dream" Mr. Grazebrook attains real distinction both in his presentation of the Platonic......
Mrs. St. Hill's Book Of The Hand (rider And Co.,
15s.) is as she claims a complete grammar of palmistry. Those who believe that the past and future are written in the lines and " mounts " of the hand will find much to interest......
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MINIATURES AND SILHOUETTES. By Max von Boehm, translated by E. K. Walker. 214 pp. , 40 coloured plates and about 200 other illustrations. (J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd. 10s. 6d.......
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