Science And The Philosopher's Stone
Through. Alchemy to Chemistry. By J. Read. (Bell, 18s. 6d.) 1 N the seventeenth century, when Isaac Newton, th e greatest scientist whom this country has ever Produced, was......
How To Think In Russian
Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism. By James 1 - 1. Billington. (O.U.P., 30s.) WITH the bankruptcy of ideology, even in its central fortresses, ideas proper are coming back into......
Barbary Boredom
WHAT a pity that so promising a writer as Mr. Xan Fielding should have let his admirers down with his latest book. After all, the Corsairs and the Barbary Coast are no mean......
Chess
By BLACK LllD0 R N o. 141. C. G. WATNEY ('Observer.' 1922) LAac o men ) WHITE (12 men) wurrE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem......
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