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Caithness In The Eighteenth Century • By John E. Donaldson

Caithness in the north-east corner of Scotland is not part of the Highlands and has always led a life of its own. Mr. Donaldson, whose scholarly account of its social and......

First Voyage In A Square-rigged • Ship By Commander Frank

Worsley Commander Worsley has already established himself as an author of no mean ability by his two books on Shac k leton expeditions. First Voyage in a Square-Rigged Ship......

Today The Subject Of Malnutrition Is Much In The Public

mind. Many people imagine that anyone suffering from malnutrition must necessarily go hungry to bed. Of course they would be wrong.' Just es a horse may grow fat on grass, and......

Current Literature

LOUD REPORT By Gibson Cowan There have been a. lot of picaresque autobiographies lately, and Loud Report (Michael Joseph, 8s. 6d.), the newest of them, can claim to phimb lower......

Siege Lady By C. P. Hawkes And Marion Smithes

The lady whose letters give substance to this book (Peter Davies, 8s. 6c1r) was Mrs. Dorothy Procter, the wife of an English merchant at Oporto, and the siege was that which the......

Busoni's Life Is A Kind Of Late Tragic Epitome Of

artistic frustration in the - nineteenth century: :was a pianist of unique genius, a man of profoundly original and audacious musical intellect, violent, self-torturing......

Pedro Rubio, A Norwegian, Went Out To Patagonia To Survey

the land and mark the boundaries of the enormous sheep- farms which cover almost the whOle country. Patagonian Year (Methuen, 7s. 6d.) is a simple and very readable account of......