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Lord Reading And His Cases By Derek Walker-smith Those Who

like reading abstracts of causes celihres, illustrated by sketches of the legal and other personalities involved in them, will enjoy this book (Chapman and Hall, 15s.). Lord......

Group Movements Of The Past By Ray Strachey When Mrs.

Hannah Whitall Smith (mother of Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith) died in 1911 she left behind her a highly, interesting manuscript on Fanaticism, which her grand- daughter, Mrs. Oliver......

Louis The Fifteenth And His Times

. By Pierre Gaxotte The sinners of the nineteenth century - are rapidly becoming the saints of the twentieth. In England, it is true, we are more used to the contrary process,......

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THE HUGUENOTS By A. J. Grant This short history of the HUguenOts (Thornton Butter- worth, 2s. 6d.) is excellently suited to its purpose; is un- prejudiced, concise, and clearly......