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Perhaps It Is A Good Thing That While Half Our

professors are busy researching, the other half should merely put together the results of their colleagues' labours, culled from dry articles in obscure scientific journals, and......

Anecdotes Of Painting In England, Vol. V

CURRENT LITERATURE Collected by Horace Walpole The Anecdotes of Painting, as originally published in the eighteenth century, stop at the accession of George III. Walpole never......

If You Want A Very Large Number Of First Approximations

for a relatively small sum, you could hardly do better than buy M. Hourticq's Encyclopedia of Art which has just been trans- lated into English (Harrap, 84s.). It contains......

Imperialism Is Once Again Bulking Large As A Cause Of

inter- national ill-will, and fresh topical interest attaches to Mr. Hobson's thirty-year-old indictment. This revised edition (Allen and Unwin, 8s. 6d.) carries a new......

This Is A Bright, Informative Little Book (news Chronicle...

2s. 6d.) which really justifies its title. It starts off very sensibly with a lightning geographical sketch of the City itself; summarises its four essential functions—to......