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Crigis Government

IT is an old commonplace that one reason for the maintenance in America of the principles of Federalism and Separation of Powers has been distrust of government as such. In this......

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"Ordinary G i rls " Rising Twenty. By Pearl Jephcott. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) Rising Twenty is sub-titled "Notes on Some Ordinary Girls." There are 103 of these girls all......

Shorter Notices

The Arabs : A Short History. By Philip K. Hitti. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d.) PROFESSOR HIM has condensed his monumental History of the Arabs, which was published here in 1938, into a......