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An Estate In Chancery

Man's Estate. By Alfred M. Bingham. (Allen and Unwin. 125. 6d.) THERE is a nostalgic flavour about this courageous, honest and often entertaining book. It is partly an......

A Study In The Art Of Fiction

THIS is a very distinguished essay on a subject which has already been largely ransacked, but not so largely that Miss Lascelles is unable to show how many subtle connexions......

A Reader Of Riddles

SIR ALFRED EWING was many things besides "The Man of Room 40,"—among them Professor of Engineering at Tokyo, Dundee and Cambridge and Director of Naval Education in Whitehall.......