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The Last Months Of 1914

The Memoirs of Raymond Poincare. Translated by Sir George Arthur. (Heinemann. 21s.). SIR GEORGE ARTHUR, an excellent translator and editor, succeeded, by judicious adaptation,......

An Heroic Malcontent

Emily Hobhouse : A Memoir compiled by Ruth Fry. (Jonathan Cape 10s. ed.) No less a person than General Smuts said of Emily Hobhouse: " The future of South Africa, the whole......

Dagger And Guillotine

Charlotte Corday, and Certain Men of the Revolutionary Torment. By Marie Cher. (Appleton. 10s. 6d.) THESE two books have sad stories to tell ; each of them describes the same......