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A Famous Sailor

Captain Marryat. By Christopher Lloyd. (Longmans. 15s.) EVERYONE who has received pleasure from Marryat's novels —and who has not?—will welcome this account of their author. We......

The Politics Of Destruction

Die Revolution des Nihilismus. By Hermann Rauschning. (Europa Verlag : Zurich. Fr. 9.) DR. RAUSCHNING has written a book of almost inestimable interest and importance. Nor is......

English Portraits

English Folk. By Wallace Notestein. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6d.) " ONLY an Englishman can really know England "—this is one of a kind of remarks frequently heard, which are only......