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The Wherefore Of The Why

gclentific Riddles. By Sir J. Arthur Thomson. (Williams slid Norgate. 10s. WO A Fool., they say, can ask a question that a wise man canriot answer. But there are so few fools......

The Wild And The Pseudo-wild

Journal of Thomas Williams. Edited by Professor G. C. Hen- derson. (Angus and Robertson. 2 Vols. 42s.) Beasts Called Wild. By AncirO Demaison. (Grayson. 15s.) AFRICA is becoming......

Authors And The Book Ttade

IF the late Sir Walter Resent, that tireless champion of the sanctity of literary property, had lived to read this brisk, witty and revealing little volume, he might well have......