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The Takers: The Adventures Of The First Tourists. By Norman

Nicholson. (Robert Hale, 18s.) THE LAKE DISTRICT has been written about endlessly and its literature is well stuffed with anecdotes and philosophisings about the figures,......

Embassies And Labour Camps

BOOKS about Russia are usually by diplomats, journalists, escaped prisoners or 'friendly delegates.' It has long been the practice of the last of these to refuse to believe the......