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The Drink Problem

Drink. (An Economic and Social Study. By Hermann Levy, (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 2Is.) IT is not drinking (except when one is about to drive a car) but excessive drinking that......

The -- Pith Of Politics

Principles of Social and Political Theory. By Ernest Barker. (Oxford University Press. 2 ss.) SIR ERNEST BARKER suggests that this elaborated version of the course of lectures......

A Painful Story

THERE was a time when biographies were wfltten piously to com- memorate the lives of great and worthy men, or men believed to be great and worthy. Today they are sometimes......