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A Girl And Education

A Little Learning. By Winifred Peck. (Faber. 12s. 6d.) To be an elderly English gentlewoman is to have lived through a far longer period in the history of women's education than......

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New Novels

THE first two books this week are written with exceptional honesty and absence of vulgarity, which gives them, at the very least, some quality sufficient for appreciative......

Ex Cathedra

The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy. By Lionel Robbins. (Macmillan. 15s.) IF the first duty of a professor is to profess then Lionel Robbins is......