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REMINISCENCES OF A STUDENT'S LIFE. By Jane E. Harrison. (Hogarth Press. 5s.) EVERYONE at Cambridge and many others, including reader s of the Spectator, must be interested to......

There Is No Wittier Or More Pleasant Reviewer Than Mr.

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Drawings And Prints

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I Hniature Portraits. By Gedeon Tenement Des Beaux. (guy...

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Proctor's Half-hours With The Telescope. Revised By W. H....

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A History Of England From The Defeat Of The Armada

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Essays On Religion. By A. Clutton Brock. (methuen. 6s. Net.)

CANON Sr im has written an introduction to this collection of essays by the late Mr. Clutton Brock. " To him," he says, " religion was a thing essentially spontaneous—an......