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Gas And Speed

Locomotion in Victorian London. By G. A. Sekon. (Oxford University Press. tar. 6d.) IT is still possible to recapture the experience of Victorian locomotion in London. A nice......

A Troll

Maurice Baring. By Dame Ethel Smyth. (Heinemann. I5s.) THE essential quality of this book is charm—a gift rarer today than it was in the literature of the Victorians. Suspicious......

Plagues Of Australia

Flying Fox and Drifting Sand. The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia. By Francis Ratcliffe. With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 16s.) THE author of......