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There is only one of the Sixteen Letters from Oscar Wilde (Faber and Faber, 21s.) which is of any importance : it was written in June, 1897, after his release from prison, and......
General Knowledge Questions Oux Weekly Prize Of One...
the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to C. J. T. Mackie, " Alfriston," Swanley, Kent, for the following :- Questions on Dickens' Minor Characters 1. Who......
Neither Of The Two Biographies Issued For The Birthday Of
President Masaryk would appear to be entirely _satisfactory. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, by D. A. Lowrie (Oxford University Press, 3s. 6d.) is somewhat puerile though......
Readers Of Detective Stories Need No Longer Feel Even A
tinge of shame on account of this popular pursuit, for we arc told in The Crime Club Bulletin that Cabinet Ministers and even Bishops read detective stories ! But the market is......
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Plato and His Contemporaries (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) is described by the author, Professor G. C. Field, as " a preliminary or supplementary essay to a study of the philosophy of......
Fiction
Interpretations Cecile. By F. L. Lucas. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) . . . and Co. By Jean-Richard Bloch. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) The Stranger. By Godfrey Elton. (Constable. 7s.......
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(Continued from page 833.) Many people have talked about and walked about Dartmoor (and got soundly wet in the process), but com- paratively few have written about it in a......
A Library List
REFERENCE Booxs :-The Dunlop Guide to Great Britain, (E. J. Burrow. 5s.)-The Directory of Directors for 1930. (Thomas Skinner and Co, 330 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, E.C.......
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