Dr. Bogle Has Followed His . Profession In Many Lands....
taken - his degree in : medicine at the Edinburgh University, he settles in New Zealand. Later on we find : him in New York and then at the Cape. He recounts no very startling......
A Wealthy Merchant, Seeing That By Small Expenditure His...
were wasting away like collyrium with the passage of time, resolved to be richer still. He yoked two bulls to his cart and set. out on an adventurous journey to Cashmere :- " As......
In His Short Preface To The Second Volume Of More
Famous Trials (Hutchinson, 21s.) Lord Birkenhead points out that the public " called for nine editions of the first series of Famous Trials in six months." He has rewarded them.......
Some Bo - Olcs Of The Week In Those Quarrelsome...
and Norgate, 10s. 6d.) Mr. R. G. Anderson retells the life of Napoleon in the new conversational style which Dr. Ludwig has done so much to popularize. His characters......
1ve Know *hat To Eicpect Of Mr: Bet* : A
eertrrin historically allusive wit ; a Gibbonian vein of irony that strikes always against the illiterate materialist ; a rhetorical trick of style called epanalepsis, that......
Ti" Innie The Pooh Needs No Introduction. Those Who Love Him
will welcome Mr. A. A. Milne's continued biography The House At Pooh Corner (Methuen, 7s. 6d.), and those who have withstood his charms are unlikely to be converted, for the......
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" Hafsa's " Desert Winds (Laurie, 16s.) is, barely stated, an account of travel in Algeria, but with a difference. There is nothing here of 'that " mystery " or " colour " or "......
The Competition
• At one time or another every one of us has either mistaken the' identity of- some one else or has been mistaken for some one else. -A contretemps which generally resulted in......
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