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The Values Of Life By Ernest Barker

Professor Barker has reprinted the articles which he con- tributed last autumn to The Spectator, with what a composer would call variations on each theme (Mackie, 3s. 6d.). H e......

Turgot And The Ancien Regime In France By Douglas Dakin

Mr. Dakin's scholarly work (Methuen, 15s.) is the first thorough account of Turgot's policy to appear in English. It illuminates the financial and economic abuses that helped to......

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SCOTLAND UNDER TRUST By Robert Hurd The National Trust for Scotland, founded in 1931, has been less concerned with acquiring beauty-spots than with preserving paces notable......

The Open Way By E. Graham Howe And L. Le

Mesurier Dr. E. Graham Howe, whose psychological teachings wield a steadily growing influence, has now published a book in collaboration with a distinguished woman writer, Mrs.......