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THUNDERSTORM-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Mistress of many moods, the author of Debatable Ground and The Matriarch (Mrs. Geoffrey Holdsworth of England) well merits the distinction of her pseudonymous initials (G. B. S.) Few writers of equal taste can so deftly thread the fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze...
...HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW,* by William S. Holdsworth, K.C., D.C.L., Professor in English Law at Oxford, is the first continuous history of English Law ever written. Said one Abraham Benedict, writing for The New York Times: "There are still lawyers in this country who think it no less important to know the history of the great heritage that is ours than to be acquainted with the latest decisions and to such these volumes will be a source of interest, pleasure and profit, and no student of political or economic conditions can afford to overlook this source of information...
...recent survey of the careers of ex-Rhodes Scholars shows that they are members of the bar of practically every State in the Union. Virtually all these men, while at Oxford, studied under Professor Holdsworth, who was affectionately known as "The Hogger...
...HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAIT (third edition, rewritten)-William S. Holdsworth- Little, Brown...
...Holdsworth, F., Forestry...