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In Alexander's Footsteps

On Alexander's Track to the Indus : Personal Narrative of - Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. By Sir Aurel Stein. (Macmillan. 21s.) Sib Aunni. STEIN has done......

Talk About The Weather

Weather. By E. E. Free and Travis Hoke. (Constable. 14s.) THIS is by far the most readable book on meteorology that we have ever seen, and should be a great assistance to......

In Trust For Civilization The Mandates System In Relation To

Africa and the Pacific, Islands. By Elizabeth van Maarten Hehner, Ph.D. (P. S. Bing and Son, Ltd. 15s.) " THE object of this book," the publishers tell us, " is to give - an......