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Horace Greeley : Nineteenth Century Cru- Sader. By...

Van Deusen. (University of Pennsylvania, $5.) HORACE GREELEY, founder of the New York Tribune, editor, political commentator, eccen- tric, is a splendid example of the......

The Technique Of Mountaineering. By Dobson, 12s. 6d.)

No Englishman has taught so many people to climb as Jerry Wright, who reigned for years as the senior guide of the Lake District, and has since become the founder and moving......

A Slim . In The Park. By William Plomer. (cape, 7s.

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Doctor Bartley Presents Us With A History Of The Stage

Irishman, Welshman and Scot. His study is academic and thorough. It covers the period from the Elizabethan drama to the end of the eighteenth century and, with such a large area......

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and letters flourished as never before. It is also perhaps the period of China's history best known to us in the West, both from the treasures of its ceramic artists and from......

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