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The Eight Plates Illustrating P. L. Debucourt In The Masters

of the Colour Print series (The Studio, Ltd., 5s.) include "La Promenade de la Galerie du Palais Royal," with Mlle. Ninon in the centre of its jolly crowds, and the even better......

Answers To Questions On Quotations On Birds

1. "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (v. 13, Browning).— 2. Shakespeare's " Sonnet " (No. 73).-3. "fl Penseroso " (line 61, Milton).-4. " Fragment from Charles I." (Shelley).-5. "The......

The Conan Doyle Stories (john Murray, 7s. 6d.) Is The

companion volume to The Sherlock Holmes Stories, and will be equally welcome to many readers. There will be few who do not recognize among the many excellent yarns one or two......

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(Continued from page 22.) The annual Report of the Rose * Institute (from the Ross Institute, Putney Heath, S.W. 15) and accounts for 1928 . are encouraging reading, for the......

Murder And Mystery, By Evelyn Johnson And Gretta Palmer...

Richards and Humphrey Toulmin, 7s. 6d.), contains a number of moderately good detective stories. They are rendered more entertaining by the fact that the solutions of the......

' Two Pages Of Gibbon Contain All That Most People

know about the Byzantine admiral whose story is fully told, for the first time in English, by Mr. S. Runciman in The Emperor Roman= Lecapenus and His Reign (Cambridge University......