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A Great Printer

Robert Estienne: Royal Printer. By Elizabeth Armstrong. (C.U.P., 55s.) ANTHONY TROLLOPE, when congratulating himself, his mother and his brother in his Autobiography for......

The Takers: The Adventures Of The First Tourists. By Norman

Nicholson. (Robert Hale, 18s.) THE LAKE DISTRICT has been written about endlessly and its literature is well stuffed with anecdotes and philosophisings about the figures,......

Politics In Australia

Australian Government and Politics. By J. D. B. Miller. (Duck- worth, 15s.) HERE is a useful book, not only for the student of political science, for whom it was primarily......

New Novels

The Pilgrimage. By Francis Stuart. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) THE two chief characters of Mrs. Jessey's novel spend most of their time in a war-deranged train dragging its sultry,......