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The Magazines

THE August Nineteenth Century opens appropriately with an article on " Playing Fields," by Sir H. Perry Robinson. The physical unfitness of our urban populations is, he argues,......

Current Literature

THE SHADOW OF MOUNT CARMEL. By W. Force Stead. (R. Cobden Sanderson. 8s. 6d. net.) MR. FORCE STEAD, in his account of his pilgrimage in search of truth, records with......

Turkey. By Arnold T. Toynbee And Kenneth P. Kirkwood. (bann.

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