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Queen Victoria's Secretary

Henry Ponsonby. By Arthur Ponsonby. (Macmillan. 2ts.) THE career of a private secretary, buffer between the exigencies of an employer and the demands of the outer world, is......

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Atlantis Re-Explored An Unknown Land. By Viscount Samuel. (Allen and Unwin. I2S. 6d.) BACON'S New Atlantis, as we all ought to know, was an account of a large island called......