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The Franciscans In England, 1224-1538. By Edward Hutton....

6d. net.)—Friar Agnellus of Pisa, with three English clerics and five foreign lay brothers, came in September, 1224, to found the Franciscan order in England. They settled in......

My Dog Simba (the Adventures Of A Fox-terrier Who Fought

a lion in Africa). Cherry Kearton. (ArrOwsnaith. 5s.)--Mr . Kearton has written better than this little biography of a gallant companion ;but it is a wonderful story he tells ,......

Irene Iddesleigh. By Mrs. Amanda M`kittriek Ross. (the...

10s: 6d. net.)—Here and there for some years now people have chuckled over old shabby copies of Mrs. Ross's novel, Delina Delaney, and a few over the less known Irene......

A General History Of The Robberies And Murders Of The

MOST NOTORIOUS PIRATES. By Captain Charles Johnson. Edited by Arthur L. Hay- ward. With Reproductions of all the original engravings. (Routledge. 25s.)—It is like meeting an old......

Fiction

CREWE TRAIN. By Rose Macaulay. "(Collins.' 7s. 841. net.)—Miss Macaulay disarms criticism by permitting one of her: characters—who is in the publishing business—to assert that "......

Show Boat. By Edna Ferber. (heinemann. 7s. 6d....

packed with incident and sentiment, this new book by Edna Ferber-brings back the colourful past of the Southern States of America in the 'eighties and the 'nineties. The......