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Design And Illustration In These Days, When The Price Of

any book containin g illustrations is apt to be prohibitive to the pockets of art students, it is a relief to be able to recommend two books on the two important counts of......

Drake : Fact And Legend

Sir Francis Drake. By James A. Williamson. (Collins. is. 6d.) A LIFE of Sir Francis Drake is a happy introduction to a new series, entitled " Brief Lives," which Collins is......

• Body—snatching Westminster Abbey Is, By G Eneral...

monu- leo ntal masonry erected to the memory of the g reat in their day, hose fame is now for g otten. No one, however, has yet su gg ested at their tombs shall be demolished......