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The Origins Of The Middle Ages

Mohammed and Charlemagne. By Henri Pirenne. (Allen and Unwin. mi. 6d.) WHEN the great Belgian scholar, Henri Pirenne, died in 1935, he left behind him the uncorrected manuscript......

Fiction

THREE of these four women novelists tell their tales this time in direct unfolding from the feminine point of view, each of them settling, oddly enough, upon a feminine group......