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M. Jules Toutain, The Eminent French Scholar, Has Written

a lucid and attractive volume on The Economic Life of the Ancient. World, translated by Mr. M. R. Dobie, for Messrs. Kegan Paul's remarkable series on "The History of......

Dear England : Portrait Of An Englishman. By Eric Simons.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—That Mr. Simons does not expect much from his readers is shown by the following extract from his preface : " People who do not write novels and......

- Besides The Two Extremely Important Articles, " Where Are

We Going ? " and " An Economic Reformation," to which we have already referred, the March issne of the Round Table (Macmillan, 5s.) contains the best available reading on all......

Insecurity. By Monica Ewer. (gollanez. 7s. Ad.), Felicity...

little more courageous, a little cleverer and slightly less disillusioned than most independent young women to-day, but, for all that, she is a very real person. What she......

Professor Hcarnshaw Has Edited A Fifth Series Of The...

lectures on social and political ideas for which King's College, London, has become noted. This volume, Social and Political Ideas of Some Great French Thinkers of the Age of......

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