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Frontier Problems The Pirate Coast. By Sir Charles...

30s.) The Pirates of Trucial Oman. By H. Moyse- Bartlett. (Macdonald, 45s.) To her book, and to the question: 'Why did the Romans fight along their rich Euphrates fron- tier?'......

Another Poet

An appalling absence of talent, And yet there's no pain When you close the Collected Works You will never open again. Not even funny; but brave. What the wise and foolish said......