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The French Revolution As Told By Contemporaries. Compil...

L. Higgins. (Harrap. los. 6d.) A MOST excellent idea has gone • to the making of this compilation: No decade . in history has produced such an incredible mass of literature as......

The Life Of Sir Edward Clarke. By Derek Walker-smith And

Edward Clarke. (Thornton Butterworth. r8s.) IT was not easy to write the biography of Sir Edward Clarke while Sir William Gordon-Cumming was still alive. The life which now......

Ways And Byways In Diplomacy. By Sir William J. Oudendyk.

(Peter Davies. r5s.) SIR WILLIAM OUDENDYK'S memoirs of his diplomatic career in the Dutch service from 1874 to 1931 are written in excellent English and reveal an intimate know-......

Shorter Notices

Welsh Life in the Eighteenth Century. By Sir Leonard Twiston Davies and Averyl Bowards. (Country Life. I55.) , WALES in the eighteenth century (when scraps of Norman- French......

Mn. Gaitioene - Hardy's Charming Book Has A Varied...

a garden beside a mill in a Berkshire village and he has filled it with plants collected in Provence, Northern Spain, Teneriffe, Savoy, Iceland and other places. By turns he......

Horizon. Edited By Cyril Connolly. (is. A Month.)

SINCE the decease of The Criterion and The London Mercutt, this country, unique in this respect among the major States of Europe, has lacked a literary magazine of any......