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The Gladstone Enigma

Gladstone and Liberalism. By J. L. Hammond and M. R. D. Foot. (English Universities Press. 7s. 6d.) How to write a short life of Gladstone ? When he was born, George III was......

A Girl And Education

A Little Learning. By Winifred Peck. (Faber. 12s. 6d.) To be an elderly English gentlewoman is to have lived through a far longer period in the history of women's education than......

What Is The Church ?

The Christian Society. By Stephen Neill. (Nisbet. 17s. 6d.) CONTEMPORARY Europe is haunted, like Pilate in the legends, by a memory. It cannot forget that it was once......