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No Heart In Nature

The Notebooks of Richard Jefferies. Edited by Samuel J. Looker (Grey Walls Press. 12s. 6d.) No one has ever succeeded in writing a justifiable work on Richard Jefferies, or even......

Near Eastern Civilisations

IT is an interesting reflection that our present, astonishingly detailed knowledge of ancient Near Eastern civilisations is-the result of hardly more than a century's research.......

Domestic Tyrant

Father : A Portrait of G. G. Coulton at Home. By his daughter, • Sarah Campion. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) WHEN, in England especially, we are fond of people, we like them all......