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Nameless Deeds

A Deed Without a Name. By Dorothy Bowers. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 3d.) 7s. 6d.) THE ingenious Mr. Carter Dickson deserves well of his public. His settings are often unusual,......

An Afghan History

A History of Afghanistan. By Brig.-Gen. Sir Percy Sykes. (Macmillan. 2 VO1S. 505.) WrrH the transformation of Kabul in less than a generation from a forbidden city into the......

The League Idea

The War for Peace. By Leonard Woolf. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) I REGRET that the notice of this important book has been delayed by the presence of a time bomb outside St. Paul's. Now......