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Seventeenth Century Card-sharpers Games And Gamesters Of...

The Compleat Gamester. By Charles Cotton, 1674.—Lives of the Gamesters. By Theophilus Lucas, Esq., 1714. Introduction by C. H. Hartmann. (Routledge. 10s. 6d.) THERE seems to......

Mr. Hearst And American Prohibition

Temperance or Prohibition ? By Francis J. Tietsort. (From 220 South Street, New York. 11.00). Ma. HEARST controls newspapers in the United States reaching 10,000,000 readers.......

Essays Grave And Gay

MR. NOYES, as readers of his recent novel will know, can be gay in prose as well as in verse ; and there is a good deal of chuckling humour, and much peppery satire, in his new......