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Elegant Modes In The Nineteenth Century By Angus Holden Mr.

Augus Holden has written a chatty little book (Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d.) about nineteenth-century fashions which displays a remarkable memory for anecdote rather than any......

This Is An Always Agreeable And Occasionally Shrewd...

6s.) of America as seen by a young _German girl. The fictional thread is rather thin, but the types, if almost all " nice people," are not too stiff to be plausible. The clash......

A History Of South Africa By Eric: A: Walker.

Cufrent Literature Fk a re-issue or a work (Longmans, 12s: ad.) remarkable nectrintinifilin Of detailed facts and for its fin- partiality than for any particular literary......