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A Famous Playhouse

IT is impossible for the present reviewer to write in cold blood about the " Old Vic," for to him it is a part of his childhood, a part of those " trailing elouds of glory." It......

A Record Of The 17th And 32nd Service Battalions,...

FUSILIERS. By Lt.-Col. Shakespear. (Northumberland Press, Newcastle , on-Tyne.) . . IT is from records such as these, giving the day-to-day life of the men who fought in the......

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCAPA SOCIETY. By Richardson - Evans. (Constable. 6s.) A SILVER thread of reverence for the beauty of our English countryside runs through this record of the......

Papfessou Schlesinger, Of Harvard, Begins Well With An...

Jackson's unconventional rule, entitling his chapter " The Rise of the Common Man," and the narrative runs smoothly all the more because politics are subordinated to the great......

The Cambridge Ancient History. Edited By J. B. Bury, S.

A. Cook and F. E. Adcock. Vol. HI. The Asayriaa Empire. (Cambridge University Press. 35s. net.) THE new volume of the great Cambridge undertaking may be summed up as-giving what......