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Last News From Japan

Tokyo Record. By Otto D. Tolischus. (Hamish Hamilton. I2S. 6d.) Japan's Dreams of World Empire : the Tanaka Memorial. (Allen and Unwin. 4s. 6d.) THOUGH we must be near......

Apology For An Actor

John Philip Kemble By Herschel Baker. (Milford. 225. 6d.) SINCE his art dies with him, what is it in an actor that lives? Something does. Otherwise why should any number of......

Time And Chance : The Story Of Arthur Evans And

his Forebears. By Joan Evans. (Longmans. 2Is.) Evans of Knossos I ALWAYS think of archaeology (fully aware of my indefensible prejudice) as a typical English occupation—almost a......