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A. Peace Symposium

(Oxford University Press. lOs. 8d.) OF the generation whose task it is to mould public opinion so that within our life's span may come " the promised time when war shall be no......

Mrs. , Besant

The Life of Annie Besant. By Geoffrey Nest. (Howe. 13s.) "DARLING Aaocra's only-fault--she has been too religious:' Mrs. Besant's mother uttered these words on her death-bed.......

A Prophet Of Inflation It Is Not Surprising That John

Law, the too ingenious Scottish financier, should have been made the subject of a biographical romance such as fashion now demands. He died just two centuries ago, but the......