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English Versions

Verse in Translation. By H. A. Siepmann. (Batchworth, 25s.) MR. SIEPMANN has chosen a hundred poems in French, German , and Latin, and presents English versions of them together......

Victorian Families

Clifton Lodge. By Ethel Thomson. (Hutchinson, 15s.) Memories and Reflections. By J. H. Badley. (Allen & Unwin, 25s.) THESE two autobiographies present strongly contrasted......

Twixt Hell And Allah

March or Die. By Howard Swiggett. (Museum Press, 16s.) 'Twix - r Hell and Allah,' Desert Carrion,' Legion of the Lost,' 'Hounds of France.' Everyone can identify the background......