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To the same series, Sir William Beach Thomas contributes a

paper which our readers will be glad to know of, for they will enjoy it. It is called The Happy Village (Benn, 1s.), and describes in Sir William's inimitable way a village before

and after the War, with reflexions on the " Green Rising," as he names the accelerated evolution of the countryside. This thin volume is packed full of common sense and intimate first-hand knowledge of conditions, both in rural England and all over the Seven Seas.

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