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  2. SAFARI IN KENYA

    ONE HAD EVERY REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT THE DISTRACTIONS OF A WORLD WAR, IN which wilful human killing on a calamitous scale was legalised, would have given the lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, rhinoceri, gazelles and other animals of Africa a chance to multiply. But, sadly, this was not the case. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. BOOKS OF THE DAY

    LIBERAL IS A CHAMELEON WORD, AT ONE TIME AND PLACE IT means Whig; at another, Tory. In "The Liberal Imagination" (London: Seeker and Warburg) the New York critic, Lionel Trilling, defines its meaning in the United States and criticises its prose literature there. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 974 words
  4. The Hungry Dice

    WHILST CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP, ON THE SIRIUS, WAS SCUDDING across the Southern Ocean from Cape Town, intent on inaugurating the drama of Australian history, a little girl was born in a Hampshire village, the tragedy and comedy of whose life will provoke tears and smiles as loner as the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. Novelist of Georgian Days: New Biography of Fanny Burney

    A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF FANNY BURNEY IS SIGNIFICANT IN ITSELF; WHEN IT is written with the delicacy of the present work-- "A Degree of Prudery" by Emily Hahn (Arthur Barker, London)-- and contains so entertaining a description of 18th century England, it is more than welcome. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. FIGHTER for UNTOUCHABLES

    THE CANVAS OP INDIAN HISTORY IS SO CROWDED WITH PICTURESQUE CHARACTERS THAT we are apt to overlook the neat, subdued figure of Dr. Bhimrao Aamji Ambedkar-- Untouchable-- Law Minister of India. Yet the story of his life and of the struggle he is still waging for 60,000,000 "Untouchables" is as thrilling to read as any of Kipling's novels. ...

    Article : 892 words
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