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Oceanic Bird

The Fulmar. By James Fisher. (Collins. 35s.) JAMES FISHER has written a remarkable book on a remarkable bird, and I for one have found it difficult to lay aside. An oceanic bird......

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Church Fathers The Fathers of the Western Church. 21s.) By Robert Payne. (Heinemann. WITHOUT the patristic writings of the first six centuries or so of our era, or had they been......

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Roger Lancelyn Green's " A. E. W. Mason " ; Admiral Sir William James " Generals and Admirals " by Captain John Cresswell ; and Dr. Glyn Daniel " Gods, Graves and Scholars " by......