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The Rise Of The Canteen

IT is difficult to realise that there are people living today who escaped by only a few years the fate of those poor wretches who as "parish apprentices" were dragged off at the......

1798 In Retrospect

HISTORIANS, even more than the general reader, have cause to be grateful to Mr. McHugh and the publishers for producing this book. No comprehensive, or even objective, work has......

Americans In Russia

A Russian Journal. By John Steinbeck and Robert Capa. (Heinemann. 21s.) IN these days, when the Russian obsession for secrecy has reached such a pitch that Pravda itself is on......