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Mr. George Mendell Has Always Been A Very Stalwart Aus-

tralian patriot ; and in his lively autobiography, The Pleasant Career of a Spendthrift (Routledge, 10s. 6d.) he hands out a few home truths to the rest of the world. London......

The Value Of Mr. Bonamy Dobree's Criticism Rests In Its

honesty ; in his steady attempt to say what he means, and feels, without swerving. The quality is rare enough : there are few literary critics whom we can really call......

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being whose life exhibited, almost from her earliest years, the quality which the Greeks called hubris, it was the last Empress of Russia. Such is the conclusion, though it is......

A Vivid Impression Of Some Aspects Of Life In Old

London may be gained from the earlier chapters of the Rev. E. G. O'Donoghue's highly interesting and well illustrated book on Bridewell Hospital (Lane, 21s.), which carries on......

The Fact That Miss K. M. Kaple, Who Has Written

An Outline of Period Furniture (Putnam, 21s.), is University Extension Lecturer in Interior Decoration at the University of California says much for the enthusiasm which America......

The Amusing, Though Fanciful, Drawings Of E. T. Reed Are

as much as most of us know about prehistoric man. We have smiled at his distorted fauna and at his strange, unlikely humans, but almost despite ourselves these caricatures have......

The Competition

SINCE the planning of holidays does not seem to be as inspiring as we hoped, we have suggested-for our next com- petition a description or an impression of some exciting or......

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