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A 'gallery' Of 16 Premiers
BRMSH PRIME MINISTERS. Introduced by Duff Cooper (Wingate, 15s.). By Andrew Boyle THE embalming of a prominent politician's reputation by a competent biographer is one thing;......
"the Sun Her Mantle"
READY MAY "John Beevers, author of Storm of Glory has written an exciting and vivid account of the apparitions of Our Lady in Europe during the past I oo years. Our Lady does......
Polished Insult
TREASURY OF INSULT, by Gilbert Harding (Weldenfeld & Nicholson, 6s.). I N reading this little book I have been frequently reminded of the Letters of Erasmus which I read some 40......
First Wave To Victory
COMMANDO, by Brigadier John Durnford-Slater Kimber, 15s.). AVE were most anxious to get a V V good selection of padres for the forthcoming operations in Europe," writes the......
Tourists In Yugoslavia
WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE, by John Poets (John Murray, 12s. 6d.). THERE is a Gilbertian flavour to II this account of two Englishmen touring Yugoslavia in a decrepit and very......
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Prize-Winners.-First prize, one guinea : Mrs. T. V. Blundell, Brownhill, near Stroud, Glos. Consolation prize, a book : Miss E. Watson, Blackpool.......
Adventurers
Extraordinary By Major Lewis Hastings THE ARABIAN KNIGHT, by Seton Dearden (Arthur Barker, 16s.). THE LAND OF THE GREAT IMAGE, by Maurice Collis (Faber & Faber, Us.). 0TH these......
Two St. Tere . Sa's One Of The New Titles In The
Mermaid Books (Michael Joseph. 4s. 6d.) is V. Sackville-West's The Eagle and the Dove, her remarkable and most readable study in the contrasts and affinities between the two St.......
Gift Book In A Thousand
TWO 01 the I., surviving towers I of San Gemignano, near Florence. At one time there were 72 of these towers, built by the families striving to outdo one another in importance.......