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Elizabethan Life In Town And Country. By

. M.- St. Clare Byrne, (Methuen.. 78. Miss BYRNE is a well-known authority on certain aspects of Elizabethan literature, and from her intimate knowledge of the period has .......

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FEW more delightful-presents could be found - than this Ilasle- wood edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock, printed by the Chiswick Press in the eighteenth-century manner, with the......

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I's is strange that while the passion for collecting old English furniture has produced in the last two decades a prodigious literature, from tie late Mr. Macquoid's monumental......

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The Story Of The Women's Institute Movement In England And

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The Quarterlies In The New Edinburgh Review Sir Valentin*...

writes a grave, we might say a threatening, article on " The World Problem of Colour." He reminds us that there are twice as many coloured people in the world as there are white......