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Book-lovers now and hereafter will be grateful to Mr. Seymour de Ricci for his volume on English Collectors of Book , and Manuscripts (1530-1930) and their Marks of Ownership......

More Books Of The Week

(Continued from page 580.) Two American writers, Professor R. V. D. Magaflin and Miss Emily C. Davis, have made an attractive and popular book. on The Romance of Archaeology, in......

Mr. Beresford Chancellor Has Written Much On Various...

old London, but he has never had a better subject than in his new book, The Annals of Covent Garden (Hutchin- son, 18s.). Once the home of fashion and then the resort of......

So Many People Are Now Taking A Lively Interest In

our Roman sites that there should be a large demand for Mr. R. G. Collingwood's Archaeology of Roman Britain (Methuen, 10s.). Nothing better could be desired than this lucid,......

If Dr. J. A. Williamson Had Not Produced His Masterly

study of Hawkins, and put that great Elizabethan in a new light, it is improbable that Mr. Philip Gosse's vivacious new book on Sir John Hawkins in the ` Golden Hind" series......

The Quarterlies

THERE are at least two articles in the Round Table (September, 1930) which are indispensable for a proper understanding of the present political situation. An admirable analysis......

Mr. Alan Stapleton, The Author And Illustrator Of London...

(Lane, 1Ss.), is not an exact student of Dickens, since he asserts that David Copperfield was engaged to Dors Spenlove, Betty Trotwood's niece "—five words and three errors. But......