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Murder Rap

THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE BOAT. By William J. Keating with Richard Carter. (Gollancz, 16s.) WHEN the American Bar Association has its mammoth meeting in London next year we shall......

John Bull's Way

LIFE IN BRITAIN. By J. D. Scott. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) MR. Scorr has had the excellent idea of compiling a volume on British Life which would serve as a guide to the......

Fellow Travellers

THERE being nothing new under either the sun or the grey skies of Britain, travel books now have meaning only when showing the reaction between narrator and material narrated.......

Horse, The Squadron, The Battle, The Kingdom, Etc., Was...

He makes the most, for instance, of Ludendorff's saying that August 8, 1918, was the black day of the German Army; but, for General Fuller himself, 'unquestionably, April 6th,......