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Wild Animals In Britain • By Frances Pitt

There are not many books dealing with British Mammals that are of interest to the casual naturalist, and this one (Bats- ford, 8s. 6d.), though somewhat sketchy, should be......

Reference Books For 1939

" Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage ; there he found occupation for an idle......

1836-1936

Banking centenaries, which testify to the enterprise of Sir Robert Peel's generation, have accounted for some interesting volumes in recent years. The latest of them, anonymous......

Current Literature

HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT • Register of the Ministers and Members, 1439-1509 If Colonel Wedgwood had issued this second volume, a " Register," before the first devoted to "......