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The Greatest Of Monarchs

Peter the Great. By Stephen Graham. (Bann. 21s.) Mn. STEPHEN GRAHAM has written an absorbing biography of Peter the Great. So magnificent is his subject that it is no slight on......

Youth Through The Ages " A Boy Baby ! How

lucky ! " His Spartan mother plunges him into a bath of water and wine—if he cannot stand that shock, then it is better for him to relinquish his hold on life immediately. After......

Criminals And Babies

WIDELY though these two books differ, they yet have pointi enough in common to justify a joint review. In each of them a whimsical title gives little indication of their......