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The First Volume Of The Wren Society, Issued Only To

sub- scribers, gives a selection of Sir Christopher Wren's drawings for St. Paul's Cathedral, from the library of All Souls' College, Oxford. Wren was at work upon his designs......

* * * * There Are Five Delightful Reprints From

the Chirendon Press. In the Drury-lane Prologue and Epilogue, Dr. Johnson is neat and weighty, David Garrick is neat and light. A folio of Pope's Of the Characters of Women is......

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MEN AND MANSIONS [COPYRIGHT IN TILE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY TILE New York Times.] Men and Mansions. By Harold Spender. (Thornton Butter- worth. 10s. 6d. net.) " Snow me a......

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THIS WEEK'S BOOKS FOUR short stories by the late Joseph Conrad are pubasned this week as Tales of Hearsay (Fisher Unwin). One was the first he wrote, one the last : none have......

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an ideal present for an absent friend. For this sum the paper will be forwarded to any address in the world. Apply : Manager, the SPECTATOR, 13 Fork Street, Covent Garden,......

In The Coasts Of Illusion (harpers) Mr. Clark B. Firestone

has produced an extraordinarily interesting and thorough work on the " travel tales which have been told in good faith from the earliest dawn of history to the middle of the......