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America's Columbus

Christopher Columbus: The Mariner and the Man. By Jean Merrien. (Odharns, 25s.) CHRISTOPHER COI IMM.S is one of the most mysterious great men of history. His Christian name,......

Barber's Pole

THERE used to be a type of book, much in vogue in the great days of Victorian explcration, whose title-page presented the unvarying form : 'With — to —.' Mr. Noel Barber's book......