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Scottish Bards And English Romantics

So Late Into the Night. Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith. (Peter Russell. 8s. 6d.) " MODERN poetry," remarked Coleridge, " is characterised by the poet's anxiety to be......

A Crisis At The Admiralty

The Navy in the War of William III, 1689-1697. BY John Ehrman. (Cambridge University PreSs. 63s.) The Navy in the War of William III, 1689-1697. BY John Ehrman. (Cambridge......

All Gaul

Roman Gaul. By Olwen Brogan. (Bell. 21s.) ThE first Roman colony outside Italy was established at Narbonne in 118 B.C. and by the beginning of our era the ruthless military......