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The Answer To The Question In The Title Of This

book is that " Britain led in the destruction " of the Covenant and the League. The author has delivered presidential addresses at assemblies of Unitarian Ministers, from 1917......

Shorter Notices

NEITHER in style nor in substance does this book keep the level of its theme. Dr. Jennings has a Party mind, and he views the Constitution mainly as something to be manipulated......

. Fiction

The Beehive. By Winifred Williams. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) " ' You mustn't have any inspiration,' I said. Music, Sir, must be as exact as science. You must know what it is......

A Baker's Dozen. By Llewelyn Powys. (john Lane. 6s.) All

but one of the thirteen essays which Mr. J. C. Powys has selected from his brother's writings are concerned with the English countryside, in Somerset and Dorset. One is a......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS MARKETS are again demonstrating their immense technical strength and the high morale among investors which underlies it. Germany's onslaught on Russia, so far from......