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Some Books On 'india

SIR EVAN MACHONOCHIE has written a very attractive book. 1 At the close of a distinguished career in the Indian Civil t Service, every phase of which he enjoyed, he has passed......

Two Cambridge Books

THESE two biographies should keep alive the memories of men who might become little more than a tradition. Yet one was known to all responsible librarians of the world as a......

" Saki," Cynic And Sage

Wiso are the great humorists of the day ? Messrs. Wodehouse, Shaw, Jacobs, Wyndham Lewis—do any of them compare in brilliant lightness with the late H. H. Munro ? As Mr. Walpole......