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Hector And The Elders

Friends, Foes and Foreigners. By Sir Robert Robertson, 16s.) Tun: first five of these books are autobiographical —the marketable but slightly bruised fruit of long lives. The......

Voltaire With His Wig Of

ONE of the functions of the writer is to com- municate pleasure; like all arts, that of pleasure can only be enjoyed by the practice of various disciplines. As one reads Miss......