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Giangaleazzo Visconti. By D. M. Bueno de Mesquita. (Co bridge University Press. 21s.) Tins is a careful study of the most powerful Italian ruler the late fourteenth century, the......

Quod Scripsi

The Current of War. By Liddell Hart. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) THIS is a strange book. In it Captain B. H. Liddell Hart (the name is given as "Liddell Hart" on the title-page)......

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The Lion and the Unicorn. By George Orwell, The Lesson of London. By Ritchie Calder. 'Searchlight Books Seeker and Warburg. zs. each MESSRS. SECKER AND WARBURG announce a series......

Thomas Baines, Explorer

Thomas Baines of King's Lynn, Explorer and Artist, 18204 5. By J. P. R.. Wallis. (Cape. 125. 6d.) THOMAS BAINES has been almost completely forgotten, and it i3 not surprising,......