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Agricultural Marketing

Feeding the Nation in Peace and War. By George Walworth. (Allen and Unwin. 18s.) THE history of Britain's Agricultural Marketing Schemes provides one of the most instructive......

A Year Of Crisis

THIS book consists of a series of impressions of the year 1936, the last of the years previously surveyed by Mr. Guedalla in The Hundred Years. It is a little unfortunate for......

Is Machiavelli A Modern ?

The Statecraft of Machiavelli. By H. Butterfield. (Bell. 6s.) IN common with most influential political thinkers, Machiavelli failed to evolve a political philosophy which was......

" Nous N'irons Plus Au Bois . . ."

THE American of the title is neither a mere expatriate nor a simple tourist ; she is a New Yorker correspondent of long stand- ing and experience, as witty, well-informed and......