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The Essays Of Mr. Eric Partridge Are Not Remarkable For

grace or great originality, though the latter quality may be granted his paper on " The Origin of the Drama," in which he seeks to detach drama from its alleged religious......

Zionism

By Leonard Stein As a short account of an interesting and important subject Mr. Leonard Stein's Zionism (Kegan Paul, 8s. 6d.) is heartily to be commended. Though nominally a new......

Escapers All Milted By Harold Armstrong

Some time ago the B.B.C. broadcast a series of talks by " escapers "—that is to say, men who had been taken prisoner in the Great War and had succeeded in escaping from the......

From Jungle To Jutland By Major Claude Wallace

The publishers of this book (Nisbet, 16s.) have done the author a strange disservice by sending it out with a list of hints for reviewers. There are in all sixteen page......

Pepys' Letters And The Second Diary Edited By R. G.

Howarth It is hard to believe, as the editor of these letters says, that Pepys had any real existence before or after his famous Diary. And this selection from his......

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