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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1951 3 MISCELLANY THE SECOND-HAND PIANO STILL IN DEMAND Bit of a Menace ment monopoly, and apparently mmt of tha male population Indulged in it. I have vivid recollections of groups of taciturn men squatting round the floors- of the native cafes and passing round a communal pipe of the stuff. On one occasion the pipe, a tiny clay bowl attached to a long and elaborately carved stem, was passed to me and, impelled both by curiosity and a desire not to offend. I had a draw or two. The result was most disappointing.

Instead of a feeling of Organised Mirth Perhaps it is just as well that we should have had it carefully explained to us that Pravda's reference to the drop in sales and reduction in revenue that would follow any publication of an interview with Mr Morrison was Intended as a joke. Without such an underlining of the merry auio some of the English notoriously dull doss as they are. might have argued that, on the contrary, circulation and revenue would go up. because Soviet readers would flock to see the kind of awful mess (from the Russian standfjoint) that the British Foreicm Secretary would make of his official blandishments. Now, of course, we are al happily overwhelmed in laughter Rt the elegant and calculated persiflage of Pravda." We also have a most comforting assurance that it is possible for the official Russian press after a suitable interval for reflection to jest upon foreign affairs.

Perhaps they have done it before and we. poor dullards, missed the merry twinkle All those denunciations of pluto-democratic plots were those done in Irony That famous picture of starving Londoners setting out on Sunday mornings to hunt mice, birds, and rabbits was that another gleeful jest Possibly. But it will become harder than ever to pin the gay Pravda and frolicsome Izvestia down to -anything if the obvious answer is In the first place, we never said it and if we did, it was intended as a joke." What a fine formula for running rings round the embarrassed English A Too-Plentiful Drug The smoking of marijuana by schoolchildren, which is causing such disquiet in the United States (writes J. is not going to be so easy to suppress, for hemp, the plant from which it is prepared, grows wild very plentifully and, as Alistair Cooke has pointed cut, can be "easily cultivated in any tenement It has even invaded this country, and, along with a large number of other aliens, has been recorded on Mersey side for some years it is also said to have been illicitly cultivated on bombed sites. The drug, known also as hashish, bhang, charras, and janja, is either chewed or smoked, though sometimes a highly intoxicating liquid is made from it.

I was rather surprised to find it sold openly in Morocco under a Govern- the Tower Bridge, St Paul's, and the Monument, aa seen from Rotherhithe when illuminated for the Festival of Britain AFTER-CARE IN THE GARDEN to allow more than a few of the pods to ripen. Mr Watkin Samuel, raiser of the famous Wrexham strain, once told me that if seeds are wanted only the lowest two NEW FILMS IN LONDON From our London Film Critic But Television a Who now buys pianos? Seeing npw rranH nianrw nrinrvl af rP39fl in shops and upright pianos at 210, it might be assumed that the answer was "Nobody" or at least only those education authorities, hospital boards, welfare committees, companies, and clubs which have taken over so many of the functions and properties of the former rich their houses, their incomes, and their patronage of the arts. The assumption would be wrong. It is true, according to Manchester dealers, that few new pianos are sold. On top of the great increase in the cost of production since 1939 there is 661 per cent purchase tax, so that a small piano which used to cost 60 would now cost something like 180.

The larger pianos are also difficult to sell, and it is not only the price that deters buyers there is no longer the room for them. But there is still a steady sale for reconditioned upright pianos, at the sort of price that people before the war used to pay for new ones. of the largest Manchester dealers said that until last June there had been an irregular but persistent increase since the war in the demand for pianos of this type, and that this year, although he was not doing so much business as last, he was satisfied. Other dealers catering for middle-class and wealthy buyers confirmed his experience, though some said that they had noticed no falling-off. But a dealer who described his trade as for the working man, selling reconditioned pianos for 60 to 80.

had been having a quieter time in recent months. One reason he gave was the rival attraction of television sets. Dealers in more TWENTY YEAR PLAN FOR LONDON Rehousing of 346,000 From our London Staff Fleet Street, Friday. The report which the L.C.C. Town Planning Committee will submit to the council on Tuesday carries the development plan for the administrative county of London another stage forward.

If the council approves the recommendations consultations with the City and Metropolitan boroughs will proceed and the plan will be put into shape for final consideration by the L.C.C. It has tD be presented to the Minister of Local Government and Planning by the end of the year. The plan covers twenty years and it is estimated that the annual expenditure, given the necessary labour and materials and favourable economic conditions, would be about 27.000.000. During the first five years 2,430 acres would be redeveloped for the housing of 233.000 people this would involve the displacement and rehousing of about 70.300. During the remaining fifteen years 236,000 people would have to be rehoused to redevelop sites for the accommodation of 346,000.

The overspill of population could not be rehoused within the administrative county in this period, and the report poirits ouL that these proposals assume that new and expanded towni will provide the necessary accommodation. It is estimated that during the twenty-year period there will be a deficit of housing accommodation for between 250.000 and 500,000 people in the administrative countv. In the first five years 313 acres would be developed for new and extended schools, and in the following fifteen vears 928 acres this would involve the displacement and rehousing of 89.000 people. The proposals for the creation of new open spaces 11.070 acres) would involve the displacement of 50.400 people, and those for 'the rearrangement of the main road system of about 23.000. ZOOMING PROCESS IN TKLEV.SION New Photographic Lens From our London Staff Fleet Street.

Friday. A handle was turned at the side of a television camera in a Park Lane hotel to-day. and on a screen in the same room the image of an old man sitting in the park was gradually enlarged to five times its previous size. There was no break in the showing of the picture, and it remained as clear throughout this process, which the sponsors term zooming." Excluding trials by th B.B.C. and a newsreel company, this achievement has never been seen before.

It has been made possible by a photographic leas invented by Dr H. H. Hopkins, a lecturer at the Imperial College, working with a team of assistants provided by the makers. W. Watson and Sons.

Previously, when close-up shots were required by film or television cameras, there had to be a momentary break in the continuity while the operator switched to another lens. That has now been eliminated, and the zoom ratio of 5:1 means that subjects in a picture taken at a hundred yards in a cricket match, for example) can now be made to appear to be only twenty yards away. HOTELS Recommended Delphiniums Delphiniums are now in good growth and some well-established plants are beginning at the time of writing to form their flowering spikes. If staking has not been done it should not be delayed any longer, for ihe hollow stems make them more liable than many other tall plants to be broken down by strong winds. Staking is not as simple as it might seem.

Growers differ in their views. Some find it adequate to have a stout stake about three feet long above the soil or to make Ihe last tie at that height in order to allow the stem some play in windy weather others prefer to make the last tie at the lowest flowering point on the stem and still others advocate the use of supple, tapering cartes which permit of tying along the whole length of the flower ing stem to prevent any likelihood of breakages. Much, of course, depends on the local conditions and the nature of the soil and its treatment, and something also on the particular varieties grown. It is almost impossible in light, sandy soils, for example, to avoid some breakages among well-grown specimens of the heavily weighted double flowers of Lady Eleanor unless the spike is supported almost to its top. On the questions of feeding and of the removal or retention of lateral growths from the stems also there are different practices.

Growers who place quality iff blooms before quantity begin to apply fertilisers in liquid form when the plants are about a foot high, while others defer any such feeding until tha flowering spikes appear. Then when the stems throw out lattrals growers for exhibition usually remove them, or most of them, in order to direct all the sap into the flowers on the main stems. This, however, greatly curtails the flowering season, for, if left, the laterals will continue to provide the garden and home with blooms for weeks after the main stems have cast their petals. If permitted, delphiniums produce great quantities of seed, but it is unwise transcendental ecstasy the drug is called Keef in Morocco, which I believe is Arabic lor delight I was merely reminded of the well-known herbal preparation which used to be sold as a catarrh cure. NOT SO USEFUL As a result of the new Board of Trade order coming into force on Monday the maximum price at which a pair of men's utility shoes can be retailed will be increased from 89s 3d a pair to 115s a pair." Another official milestone on the way to the Welfare State.

Utility Utility We notice with huimlity The notable agility which prices now display They do not saunter graciously, but rise aloft rapaciously Avid and most audaciously they go their woeful way. I once assumed Utility implied a faint facility For meeting the fragility of purses lean and spare. But who in this our polity can rise with any jollity To shoes of modest quality at Five-Fifteen a pair At such a price Utility has lost its old civility, Its former plausibility has come a feaiful crash As label it seems spurious no bait for the penurious. But luring the luxurious with lots of surplus cash. It hints at incapacity, if not downright mendacity, To stick with such tenacity to labels once bestowed It makes no sense or rightfulness, It seems a piece of spitefulness.

Sheer economic rightfulness Utility be blowed 1 Lucio. are as convincing as they should be, but the joke has vitality enough and the players skill enough to make such frailties seem unimportant. The director and his script-writer have, in fact, proved once again that fanciful filmcraft is much less important than a good story and that the secret (if, indeed, it is a secret) of the success of Ealing Studios is that they persist in daring to be insular Nothing could be more typically British (as the term is understood by most British people and by all foreigners) than this film's fun at the expense of such institutions as the police force and the criminal classes. Yet it would perhaps be a mistake to insist on the absence of fanciful filmcraft in this particular example of Ealing's work those riotous, rapid sequences in which Mr Guinness and Mr Holloway descend the Eiffel Tower (the real one) are a remarkably purple passage to Mr Crichton's direction. John Wayne, who has won the last war in so many different uniforms, wins it again in Operation Pacific (at the Warner).

His uniform this time is naval and his triumphs occur in a submarine his submarine, it seems, sinks most of the Japanese fleet and Captain Wayne, in his brief intervals of shore leave, finds time lo conquer the errant affections of Patricia Neal. An American company made Rapture (at the Academy) in Italy with the help of a pretty Swedish heroine (Elsy Albiin) and other Europeans the result is a woeful hybrid of cliches and sentimentalities. SOLICITOR STRUCK OFF The disciplinary committee of the Law Society yesterday ordered that John Anthony Haddon Cave, of the Close, Footners Lane, Burton, Christ-church, Hampshire, be struck qff the Roll of Solicitors. They found him guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor, and that in just over five years, while he was in practice as a solicitor, he misappropriated 4.068 18s 4d of clients' money by a system of deliberate fraud, which he succeeded in concealing from his accountant." Guardian of June 28, 1851. newspaper proprietor themselvei only id.

out of the whole charge to cover compositors' wages, editing, reporting, the cost of telegraphic intelligence, and the other heavy miscellaneous expenditure which must be incurred before the paper reaches the hands of the public. Under these circumstances, a resolution has been unanimously come to by the proprietors of the Manchester newspapers to make the comparatively small additional charge of a halfpenny to their present price, and the reasonableness of their decision will, they think, be sufficiently apparent from the facts iust stated. The alteration in price will commence on and after Wednesday, 2d of July. The future price of the Guardian will consequently be flvepence, with an additional halfpenny when delivered bv a newsman. The half-yearly charge will be 23s.

on credit, and 22s. if paid for in advance. The "Manchester Guardian" in 1851 was published twice weekly, oh Wednesdays and Saturdays. The price remained at 5d until July 2, 1855, when, on the removal of the stamp duty, the paper became a daily at 2d if delivered by Newsman 2Jd''); it came down to a penny on October 5, 1857. Because Passport to Pimlico and Kind Hearts and Coronets were cause for such heartfelt gratitude every subsequent film from Ealing Studios has been regarded with anxious severity.

Ealing's jovial exploitation of the foibles of British character and the oddities of British life seemed to be growing stereotyped inventiveness seemed to flag the search for suitably British backgrounds seemed to be growing self-conscious. Now to confound our severity, comes Ealing's The Lavender Hill Mob (at the Odeon, Marble in which Charles Crichton (the director of "Hue and T. E. B. Clarke (the writer of Passport to and Alec Guinness (whose versatility seems boundless) have conspired to produce a work comparable with the best that has come before.

Perhaps even here one may detect a slight straining after typically British comic effects rather than that quasi-spontaneous flowering of a rich idea which marked Passport to Pimlico yet the effects are almost always successful and the theme round which the film was made is certainly rich enough. Among the players it is Mr Guinness who is the key man. He is this time the mildest mannered of bespectacled bank clerks, in whose heart lurks a scheme of the wildest naughtiness: he has for years been contemplating a foolproof plan for robbing his bank of 1 million in gold bullion. Theory turns dramatically practical when he meets Stanley Holloway (a genial manufacturer of model Eiffel Towers, Taj Mahals, and such-like), for. with Mr Holloway's co-operation, the gold can be melted down to model Eiffel Towers and, with all imaginable innocence.

exported to France as souvenirs for tourists. Two professional scallywags are pressed (without much demur I into the service, the Lavender1 Hill Mob if lormea. ana tne pertect plan is executed. Of course it goes a little wrong, and out of the small mishaps grows a tide of misadventure in which. mr ouinness ana Mr Ho nvav arp i eventually drowned.

rot all the links in the chain of fantasy expensive pianos, too, had felt this threat (as they thought it). Television is undoubtedly a bit of a menace," said one but the working man's dealer said, unlike their customers, that his customers could afford only the one or the other. But he was not unduly worried about the threat. He compared it with that of wireless its early days, when there were gloomy prophecies that it would be the death of music-making in the home and so of the piano trade. Instead, by spreading an interest in music, wireless had been a really good friend to dealers, and he thought that later television might be considered in the same light.

Other dealers also were grateful for the educative value of wireless and its share in their increased sales, and one of them mentioned, too, the greater part that music plays now in schools. Even though he is not selling more pianos, the working man's dealer is busier than ever reconditioning them his men are working overtime. Even if people cannot buy a new one, they at least have their old one done up. He charges about 30. This fee: too, because of the increases in wages and cost of materials, is much higher than before the war.

when he used to sell reconditioned pianos for little more than that. Since the majority of the pianos now being sold are reconditioned, one asks oneself how long the supply will last. Apparently there is no sign yet of the supply being exhausted. The spring, it seems, is a season when people feel the urge to sell their pianos every year thev come on the market. One dealer suggested that the piano, collecting dust in the parlour, where it has perhaps stood unplayed since the cotton boom of 1920, represents a sort of "frozen" holiday fund, which melts at Ihe approach of the summer holiday.

DEVELOPMENT OLDHAM OF "Conflicts" with County By our Planning Correspondent The County Borough of Oldham is one of a dozen planning authorities whose development plans have been submitted to the Minister of Local Government and Planning in the last few days before the official deadline." Divergencies between its proposals and the Lancashire County Council's preliminary plan for the surrounding districts illustrate the kind of problem confronting the Ministry in its task of dovetailing local plans. Oldham's population, which rose to a maximum of nearly 150.000 in 1921. stood at about 120.000 in 1949. The written analysis accompanying the town's development plan forecasts a further voluntary emigration of 3,625 by 1971. as compared with the Lancashire County estimate (on the basis of past trends) of 8,620 by 1962.

Housing is extremely congested, with an average net residential density of about seventy-five persons to the acre. Nearly a quarter of the existing houses were declared unfit for habitation ten years ago 2.400 are of the back-to-back type and conditions have since deteriorated. The town's major problem, after clearing a waiting list of nearly 1,500, is therefore the redevelopment of slum property. Assuming that ten thousand houses can be built in the next twenty vears. the plan puts forward a programme of slum clearance that would involve an overspill of about 23,000 persons.

It is estimated that the 610 acres transferred to Oldham from the Limehurst rural district three months ago can absorb some ten thousand people, who would for the most part have to rely on the rest of the town for civic and cultural facilities, work-places, higher education, playing fields, and shops. BIG LAND DEFICIT The remaining 13.01)0 people, it Is suggested. should be rehoused in adjoining areas." (Nothing is said about the accommodation of the further overspill that must arise from redevelopment after 1971.) But Lancashire's preliminary plan indicates a net deficit in land available in the surrounding districts for their own housing needs, and a very large deficit for the southeastern part of the country taken as a whole. Also included in Oldham's twenty-year programme is the building of eight secondary and 23 primary schools, the reconstruction of 29 existing schools and the completion of the college of further education. All this entails an increase in space for educational purposes from 51 to 181 acres.

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Tel. Waters He 7. TWO EXHIBITIONS BY SfCKERT From our London Art Critic or of the pods on eacr. stem should be saved. And as the seeds are apt to lose their vitality much more quickly than many other species the best results arc obtained by sowing them as soon as they are ripe enough.

Being hybrids the garden varieties cannot be depended upon to produce seed true to type, but good varieties are worth experimenting with by amateurs with some ground to spare for the purpose. Many of the results will probably be disappointing, but there Is always interest in watching the flowers open and in deciding which should be retained and which sacrificed. To increase one's stock of particular varieties cuttings should be taken when the new growths are three or four inches high, and in each case the cut should be made close to or just into the hard stock in order to obtain a base which is not hollow. Dipping the base in one of the hormone powders sold for the purpose or into powdered charcoal, flowers of sulphur, or dry wood ash will accelerate rooting, which can be done with assurance in sandy soil in a cold frame or under a bell-glass or cloche Another question which keeps cropping up is whether, after flowering, the plants should or should not be cut to the ground. It is quite correct that in some seasons on some soils such cutting down results in a second crop of flowers late in the autumn.

But my own experience of both methods is that such cutting down and secona cropping has a weakening effect upon the plants and that as a rule the second crop is not worth the trouble and risk. It is much belter to confine the cutting to removing the flowering spikes when the flcwers fade and leave the rest of the stems nnd leaves to strengthen th- stocks in the natural way. If an autumn display be wanted it can be obtained by the taking of cuttings in early spring. a. L.

an elcher. Sickert liked the rattier sad streets of North London. He lived far some vears in Quadrant Road and Barnsbury Park and had at least four different studios in Islington. The wallpaper of one of them was red, a fine strong red. heavy and imposing, if a little dingy, and on this wallpaper Sickert painted his extraordinary "Raising which, was subsequently removed from the wall to become the sensation of the Royal Academy of 1932.

The Borough of Islington deserves our gratitude for giving us a chance to see it again. One peculiarity of Sickert is well shown in this exhibition his strange progress from painting very dark pictures to painting very pale ones. "The Artist in his Studio" (1911) could hardly be darker, "The Coffee Mill" could hardly be paler. The drawings and etchings show the extraordinary -delicacy and accuracy ot his draughtsmanship. Sometimes he seems intoxicated with his own ability to suggest a world of meaning with two smudges and a scribble, but usually he has no lime to be delighted with his own skill, so anxious is he to convey his ideas.

And what odd, unexpected, and original ideas they could be NEW LEGAL APPOINTMENTS The King has appointed Mr Geoffrey de Paiva Veale, K.C., to be Recorder of the Borough ol Sunderland, with effect from June 28. He also approved the appointment of Mr Walker Kelly Carter. K.C.. to he deputy chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the County of Derby with effect from June 28. ACROSS 1.

Mind it makes no difference (2, 6). 5. Not healthy in Birmingham or Bideford 16 J. 10. Code for a walrus (51.

11. A merry odd animal (9). 12. Went down (9). 13.

Strew no more red maidens" (Arnold) (5). 14. One who picks up in general confusion (7). 16. Short poem with refrain (7).

19. Thin bag for dippers (7). 22. Fire-basket yielding secrets i7. 24.

Cup, note, or stroke (5). 26. Rude lover declared invalid (9). SOLUTION TO OMkMVMO Os. 1H 29.

Ten 30. Came 31. All agree this (6). 32. Shines 1.

Has no (5) 2. Fancied assert 3. The place 4. Came 6. Harry 7.

Band. 8 Dedicatee Scott's 9. We drop 14. What goods A drawing by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of OBITUARY Mr Robert H.

Hodgkin We regret to announce the death of Mr R. H. Hodgkin, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, from 1937 to 1946, which occurred at his home at Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, on Thursday. He was 74 years of age. Robert Howard Hodgkin was born at Neweaslle-on-Tyne in 1877, the son of Dr Thomas Hodgkin, banker and historian, and educated at Repton, Leighton Park School.

Reading, and Bailiol College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History in 1899. In 1900 he was appointed Lecturer in Modern History at Queen's College. From 1910 until his election as Provost of Queen's in October. 1937, in succession to Dr Streetcr. he was Tutor.

and from 1928 to 1934 Universitv Lecturer in Modern History. On his retirement as Provost in 1946 he was made an honorary Fellow of Queen's, or wnicn ne nad been rellow from 1904 to 1937. His best-known work as historian was un me Anglo-baxon period, and in 1S35 he published his notable History of me rtngio-saxons. A correspondent writer R. II.

Hodgkin was known and respected in the wider world as an historian. But those who knew him as tutor or colleague or as Provost of Queens Collece were aware, in arlrii tion, to what an extent his professional interests were accomDanied bv reeard for the welfare of Queen's and of its members past and present. There was no more hospitable door in Oxford than his and no home the undergraduate or the younger Fellow might enter where the atmosphere of the family so strongly prevailed. It was appropriate that it should have been during his Provostship that Queen's reached the six-hundredth anniversary of its foundation, and that he was able in his retirement to write the story of the college in his book "Six Hundred Years of An Oxford College." Hodgkin emphasised in this book the living continuity of the society with which he had himself for so long been associated. It is objective history but it is at the same time the expression of the writer's personality and a most fitting memorial.

MR JOHN OLLIR- Mr John OlIifT, former British Davis Cup player and a writer on lawn tennis, died suddenly yesterday at his Chiswick home at the age of 42. lie was engaged in his journalistic duties at Wimbledon on Thursday. He was junior champion in 1024-25. and in 1946 played for Britain in the Davis Cup match against France. With Fred Perry he was British hard-court doubles champion in 1932, and often partnered H.

W. Austin. During the war he served on flying duties with the R.A.F. NIGHT SKY IN JUhY From an Astronomical Correspondent The sketch-map shows the planets and brighter stars as they now appear about 11 p.m. The stars will all be slightly farther to the west after each complete 24 hours, and the map will accordingly how their positions about four minutes earlier each successive evening.

Its centre represents the sky overhead and its circumference is the horizon. It should be held vertically, with that point on its circumference undermost whicn corresponds to the direction in which the observer is looking. Venus remains an evening star and will increase still further in brilliance until July 29. but its rapid motion southwards will make it set progressively earlier. At present it remains visible till well after II 30 p.m., but at the end of the month it will disappear before 10 p.m..

and only its exceptional brightness will make it easily seen in the twilight. In the evenings of July 7 and 8 the crescent moon will be in the same part of the sky. Saturn is low in the west and will soon become inconspicuous in the twilight, but shortly after it sets Jupiter will be seen rising in the east, making its appearance about 11 p.m. at the end of vluly. Altair shines brightly in the south-east.

Vega is above it, while the faint of the Dolphin and the familiar Cross of tha. Swan are farther to the left, in the east the Square of Pegasus is iust above the horizon. The Scorpion, containing the bright red star An tares, is low the south, and Arcturus and. Spica are prominent in the south-west- The First Lord of the Admiralty has approved the appointment of Mr V. G.

Shepheard, as Director of Naval Construction, with effect from October 12, 1951, in succession to Sir Charles Lillicrap, who retires on September 30. xh, Cjfi3 VENUS 100 YEARS AQO by have an unusual oppor- lunity at present of seeing pictures by Walter Sickert. The gallery of Roland. Browse, and Delbanco is showing what is described as forty of his finest paintings," the Borough of Islington is showing an interesting collection of his work at the public library in Essex Road, and there are one or two important paintings in the Arts Council Anthology in the New Burlington Galleries. The street scenes from Dieppe, the music-hall scenes, the nudes Camden Town bedrooms are all well represented in the show at Roland, Browse, and Del-banco's.

Dieppe Street with Red Inn Sign is very good indeed, and so is a blue and violet twilight scene there is an amusing, brightly coloured picture of Le Lion Comique singing what one supposes to have been a French version of How the girls all wink at mc W-en I walk duwn the street or something similar and there is a nude reclining i'n a Mornington Crescent bedroom painted with wonderful truth and subtlety. The rather cadaverous Israel Zangwill looks at the burly aplomb of heavily bearded Victor Lecour both are excellent portraits and suggest. wit and sympathy. There are some landscapes, but there is an absence of those oaintings which were based on wood engravings from Victorian magazines, paintings which the artist found entertaining but which now seem to have been rather a waste of time. There are one or two examples of these at the show at the Islington Public Library a short tram-ride from the Angel but most of the paintings are of a more interesting kind and some are very good indeed.

This show also gives us a chance of seeinj Sickert as a draughtsman and BOOKS RECEIVED We have received the following books Prom Allen and Unvrtu. THE COMMERCE OF NATIONS. By B. CondllSc. ids.

Prom Batchu-orth Press: BRIDGE AT HOTFS CLUB- By Hubert PHUllpi. ys Od. From A. Brown and Sons: A HISTORY OF POCKL1NOTON SCHOOL. EAST YORKSHIRE.

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