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New Novels

THE jolly Jack-tar is an engaging and reassuring figure in English, folklore. Never mind the public ingratitude or the general vile- ness of conditions at sea, he was always......

Pope's `dtrnmad.' A Study Of Its Meaning.

By Aubrey L. Williams. (Methuen, 18s.)' PRESENT-DAY readers of Pope value The Dunciad highly. Mr. Williams's indispensable book does for it what Miss Starkman's book did for A......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 35. G. C. DOBBS BLACK (6 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: A% solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Hartong: P-Q 4 threat R x P. 1 . . .......

Me Domestic Servant Class In Eighteenth- Century England....

Jean Hecht. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 25s.) M ATT BRAMBLE, in Humphry Clinker, said that 'every trader in. any degree ,of credit, every broker and attorney, maintains a couple......

These Volumes, Which Contain A Catalogue Of Plays And...

of the Jacobean and Caroline theatre, bring Mr. Bentley's mam- moth work almost to completion. There is one more volume to come on theatres and theatrical customs. When that......