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Acton, - Gladstone And Others. By Mary Drew. (nisbet.. 7s.

6d.) Mos. DREW gives us some delightful pictures of the steadfast lights of Victorianism ; Gladstone crowded out of his house by books, offering a prize for the discovery of a......

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MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1494-1914. By J. S. Hoyland. (G. Bell and Sons. 5s. net.) THE compression of the history of a continent over four centuties :into a small book can only......

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WHO'S WHO FOR 1925. (A. and C. Black. 42s. net.) THIS invaluable dictionary of biographies is now in its seventy seventh year. Although its accuracy depends largely upon the......

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