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John Locke In France

Locke's Travels in France. Edited by John Lough. (Cambridge University Press. 40s.) IN November, 1675, when he was forty-three, John Locke left England to spend three-and-a-half......

In Next Week's " Spectator " Professor Bonamy Dobree Will

review " Fables " by. Jacquetta Hawkes and " The Doctor and the Devils " by Dylan Thomas ; and James Layer " A History of Fashion " by Douglas Gorsline.......

Follow The Man From Cook's

The Thomas Cook Story. By John Pudney. (Michael Joseph. 15s.) THOMAS COOK was one of my boyhood's heroes—almost taking rank with George Henty, Charles Kingsley because of The......

A Great Explorer

George Bass : 1771-1803. By Keith Macrae Bowden. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) IN 1795, when George Bass reached Sydney as ship's surgeon in H.M.S. ' Reliance,' the penal......