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(Continued from page 20.) Captain Fergusson was a brave and gallant gentleman, who was murdered in 1927 by the Nuer, over whom for years he had had the sole-administrative......
Mr. Samuel Mckechnie's The Romance Of The Civil Service...
Low, 6s.) is a sort of guide to the various branches of our bureaucracy and government institutions—to their architecture, • historical development and present-day . duties. The......
In Myths And Legends Of The Australian Aboriginals...
Dr. Ramsay Smith puts Australian culture yet one more volume further away from permanent extinction. The myths and legends which he has here collected will appeal to the......
Few Poets Nowadays Have The Patience To Write Odes, And
fewer still get them printed. But Mr. Theodore Edward Jones, who has produced an ode on St. Asaph Tower, is actuated by a very definite and worthy. purpose. He tells the story......
Mr. T. D. Kendrick Observes In His Preface To A
History of the Vikings (Methuen, 18s.), that there is in English no sub- stantive history which covers the whole extent of the activities of those daring robbers, merchantmen......
The Editor, Mr. Gerald F. Sayers, And The Tanganyika...
are to be congratulated on the, publication of The Handbook of Tanganyika (Macmillan, - 10s.). This is a volume of over 600 pages, well illustrated and more than usually well......
It Is Well Known That -in The Early Middle Ages
the. tithes of many, parishes. were . ppropriated, by local magnates and, with Papal sanction, to monastic houses. Bishops made it their business to see that the parish churches......
The Publishers Observe About Mr. S. Guy Endore's Casanova...
15s.) that it is " the first biography " of that interesting rogue and amorist " for a considerable time." In American it may be ; but in English our feeling is that a life of......
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