Boadicea By Lewis Spence In His Opening Chapter Mr. Spence
sets out the few facts recorded by Tacitus and Dio concerning Boadicea's revolt against the Romans in the year 61. The rest of a long book (Robert Hale, i2s. 6d.) is an......
The Bravest Soldier: Sir. Rollo - Gillespie By Eric...
Wakeharn Should have remem- bered that comparisons are " odious before he adopted a thoughtless-phrase of Fortescue's as the title for his memoir (Blackwood, Ifs. 6d.). - Rolld......
The Life And Adventures Of John Nicol, Mariner The Memoirs
of a Scotti3h seaman which Mr Alexander Laing has reprinted (Cassell, zos. 6d.) from a forgotten volume of 1822 are interesting, though the discoverer exaggerates their literary......
Ancient Cyprus By Stanley Casson While The British...
half a century, is beginning to show an interest in the mediaeval monuments of Cyprus, Mr. Casson's scholarly and readable essay (Methuen 7 5 . 6d.) is designed to show that the......
The Indiscretions Of A Warden - By Basil L. Q.
Henriques The value of social service, especially • when it- has a religions basis, is - *ell -- shown in Mr. Henriques' modest and absorbing account of his twenty years' work......
Animals For Show And . Pleasure In Ancient' Rome .
By George Jennison As a classical scholar who long had the direction of the Belle Vue zoological gardens at Manchester, Mr. Jennison was fully qualified to write on the animals......
Current Literature Modern Money By Myra Curtis And Hugh...
Miss Curtis and Mr. Townshend have made a determined and, on the whole, successful effort (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) to bridge the gap between the existing elementary' textbooks of......
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