The Boy Scout's Companion. Edited By Morley Adams....
6d.)—This book would make a very good prize for a competition among Scouts during their indoor work in the winter. The dif- ferent chapters discourse on many features of the......
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time of the French Revolu- tion. The language partly follows that curious but sometimes effective convention of a seemingly literal translation of French idioms, and the......
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