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The Place Of The Scots

Summer in Scotland. By Ivor Brown. (Collins. 16s.) THE Scotland of this book is not simply a piece of scenery, a ribbon of grandeur unwound for the tourist's gaze ; it is the......

History In Pictures

Those Impossible English. By Quintin Bell and Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 25s.) To the impossible all things are possible. This book presents an......

The Strong Boy

John L. Sullivan : 'Champion of Champions. By Nat Fleischer. (Robert Hale. 18s.) "WHEN once that I was and a little tiny boy," I was taken to a Glasgow music-hall. On the stage......