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Russian Dominance

Russia and her Colonies. By Walter Kolarz. (George Philip. 25s.) IN Russia and her Colonies, Mr. Walter Kolarz has achieved a remarkable tour-de-force. He has produced, with......

Othello De Nos Jours

I HAD thought it was my own ingrained distaste for the diary form in published works that for a fortnight at least, when I should have been reading it for review, kept me at......

Philosophy Of History

The Nature of Historical Explanation. By Patrick Gardiner. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 10s. 6d.) THE purpose of philosophy, according to Wittgenstein, is the logical Kla rung of......

The Enlightenment And Germany

Geoffrey Cumberlege : Princeton University Press. 40s.) As a good translation of an important and difficult work this book is to be welcomed. Cassirer's Enlightenment was......