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The Cause Of Cancer By David Brownlie

Although its title is perhaps too positive in its implications ' this book (Chapman and Hall, 75. 6d.) is a quite serious, and very ably documented, appeal for the study of the......

Gales, Ice And Men By Frank Wead

This is the biography (Methuen, 12S. 6d.) of the steam barquentine 'Bear,' thr sixty years engaged in work in Polar seas. It is primarily of interest to those who sail, but the......

• Hail, Caesar! By Fletcher Pratt

In the opening pages of this new life of Caesar (Williams and Norgate, 15s.) Mr. Pratt shows himself all too anxious to interest American readers by likening the party struggles......