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A History Of The Ancient World. By M. Rostovtzeff....

from the Russian by J. D. Duff. Vol. II. Rome. (Clarendon Press. 21s.)—The second and concluding volume of Professor Rostovtzeff's masterly sketch of ancient history is even......

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Mackay Cloutman, V.C., and Francis W. Luck. (John Bale, Sons and Danielsson. 7s. 6d.)—The shrewdest author or the wisest publisher might read with profit Messrs. Cloutman and......

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Sacheverell Darwin. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—This hitherto unpublished diary of an adven- turous tour made while the Peninsular War was raging illus- trates afresh the......

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Illustrated. By General F. J. Moberly. (H.M. Stationery Office. 15s.)—With this volume General Moberly brings to an end his survey of the operations in Mesopotamia and adjacent......

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(H. F. and G. Witherby. 18s.)—Major Church, a former Labour member, who went with the Parlia- mentary Commission to East Africa in 1924, has written an interesting book on the......

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Europe Since Waterloo : 1815-1919. By * William Stearns...

Illustrated. (Parsons. 30s.)—One would wish to treat with respect the work of a Professor of History in the University of Minnesota. But an examination of his book makes respect......