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Some Reference Books And Other Publications

Mn. FOWLER is cruel—no doubt, only to be kind—to the inversions of the poor literary paragraphist, who, in a pathetic attempt at brightness, writes such stuff as this : " Most......

Voltaire

(Alberto Morano, Naples'. 1925.) VOLTAIRE has had two peaks to his fame, one of which collapsed with his death, the other of which the twentieth century is witnessing a gradual......

Communism And • The Community

False Dawn. By Al. Carthill. (Blackwoods. 10s. 6d.) THE author of The Lost Dominion tells us that he is old, and an exile. "'At my age the sipping of gruel seems more attractive......