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Musings Without Method

The United States of Europe. By E. Horriot. Translated by R. J. Dingle. (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) IT is difficult not to suspect that this book was first conceived in the brain of its......

Some Essays There Is Always Matter For Surprise In The

annual collection of Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. The ponderous caption suggests the usual table, glass of water and lecture : one discovers, instead,......

A Traveller In Birds

Memories (1851-1929). By Abel Chapman. (Gurney and Jackson. 218.) AMONG Mr. Chapman's friends and schoolfellows was F. C. Selous, one of the most ardent naturalists and youngest......