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The Civil Service Hierarchy

MAJOR LEGGE-BOURKE takes his title rather neatly from a passage ifs Gibbon, which, referring to the year 324 A.D. (Constantine being then Emperor), states that "the principal......

Battles Long Ago

SCHOOLBOYS and undergraduates have long been familiar with wars in which nothing seems to happen between the causes and the results, both conveniently tabulated for use in......

British Uplands

Mountains and Moorlands. By W. H. Pearsall. (Collins' New Naturalist '' series. 2 Is.) THE uplands of Britain, which form about a third of the land, are the areas least touched......