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Sir Christopher Wren.*

IT is very fitting that Sir Lawrence Weaver should salute Wren at his bi-centenary with a beguiling little book' for the writing of which he was singularly well equipped. As......

A Modern Creasy.*

MILITARY historians will always dispute as to the interpreta- tion of the word " decisive." Of the five battles described by Lieut.-Colonel Whitton in this volume—Vicksburg,......

The Wheel Wright's Shop.*

IN this volume Mr. Sturt, discarding his transparent pseudonym, gives us perhaps the best of his series of pleas- antly personal books. It is the kind of book, we fancy, more......