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The Chemical Revolution

(Collins, 25s.) t a SHERWOOD TAYLOR'S posthumous book deserves to do for chemistry • • Trevelyan's Liittlish Social History achieved 3 quite differ- ent field. There are only......

Monkish And Twaddling

The Letters of Lady Palmerston. Edited ' by Tresham Lever. (John Murray, 28s.) WITH some assistance from the Prince Regent and others, the first Lord Melbourne produced one of......