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Mr. L. S. S. O'malley's Thoughtful Andinforming History...

Indian Civil Service, 1601-1930 (Murray, 12s.), deserves a welcome. He describes the gradual development of the picked body.of a thousand higher officials who have done so much......

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Joseph Priestley Had Many Claims To Be Remembered. He Was

a famous eighteenth-century scientist and the discoverer of oxygen. He was a great rationalist and suffered for his opinions so much that he spent his latter years in the United......

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issued by the Royal -Commission on Historical Monuments are incomparable. The new volume on Hereford- shire—South-West (H.M. Stationery Office, 30s.) seems even better than......

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by the works of Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington, seems to have created a general feeling that Christian theism is put once more on its defence. In God and the Universe......

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and more and more," come the crime books of the " Notable British Trials" series, of which Mr. Harry Hodge is general editor, and about which one always recognizes the signs of......