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The Necessary Evil

DR. Mum . CUNNINGTON has long since established himself as one of our leading authorities on the history of costume. His magnum opus, Englishwomen's Clothing in the Nineteenth......

An Immortal Volume

Sir Thomas Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, EDITIONS of Erskine May do not usually follow quite as rapidly on the heels of their predecessor as the fifteenth has......

The Second World War

IAN HAY is responsible here for the first volume to appear of a series of short military histories of the Second World War com- missioned by His Majesty's Government and......