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Shipmanship

Of Ships and Men. By Alan Villiers. (Newnes, 30s.) EVEN if the seas make you puke, and you abhor anthologies, you may without much trepidation embark with Alan Villiers. Yet all......

What Was Democracy?

A History of the Weimar Republic. By Erich Eyck. (Harvard and O.U.P., 3 gns.) THE fall of the Spanish Republic has commonly been described as the classic case of democratic......