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We Do Not Venture To Claim For This Standard Work

on British Railways that it is light reading, but eminent writers such as Father Ronald Knox have admitted finding it as fascinating in its way as a good detective story ; and......

Take A Seat In "europe's Best Club."! And Without Stirring

one inch from your own snug, familiar indentations in the arm- chair at home. Reach for Hansard, and you're made free of the matchless verbal tourneys at Westminster—yourself......

The Spectator Competitions No. 29 It Is The Resourceful...

of certain persons to mitigate the tedium of railway travel by improvising dialogues calcu- lated to intrigue their fellow passengers. Prizes of book tokens for £2 2s. and £i......

Do You Know?

1. What Mr. Maxton said to Mr. Gallacher at the Moffat Hydropathic? 2. What Miss Ada Hayes, of Edmonton, is going to do with 25 circus ponies and 2 donkeys? 3. How much the......

Report On Competition No. 27 The Usual Prizes Were Offered

for the most entertaining publishers' blurbs designed to advertise either Hansard, Brad- shaw, or the London Telephone Directory as a book for general reading. This competition......