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On Duty

Tinned Soldier. By Alec Dixon. (Cape. los. 6d.) Tam first and second of these books are first-hand accounts of life in the British Anny. Mr. Dixon had seven years in the Royal......

Fiction

THE latter of these two books pleased me in the nostalgic, Per" sonal way of assent ; in fact it was so easy and gentle to read that I hold my reactions to it suspect and am......

James I Comes Into His Own

A Jacobean Journal. By G. B. Harrison. (Routled g e. 16s, 64-) IN this book Dr. Harrison carries on the plan of his own which he developed with his Elizabethan journals into the......