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The Pageant of the Years. By Philip Gibbs. (Heinemann. 18s.) SIR PHILIP Glans' life has been, to use a conventional phrase, crowded with incident and it is a defect in his......

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A Boswell Without a Hero Alexander Woolleott, His Life and His World. By Samuel Hopkins Adams. (Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.) A GREAT many of us heard the voice of Alexander......