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... A detail from tlie painting Liy Dirclt Hals E Dirck Hals, the younger brother of the famous Frans Hals, painted during the period when the Corporation canvases were in vogue. He is sometimes dismissed somewhat curtly bv writers on Dutch art, but he was a very capable painter, for all that, as this detail from his Country Fete shows. It reflects the wealthy days of seven teenth-century Holland, ...
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... A Tesfing Time for Yugoslavia A Country on the Edge of the Storm, Which Uses the Fatal Formulae of the Tsfeutral DURING the last Great War the Serbians bore them selves bravely, performing heroic deeds of valour, not counting the cost when their country was in danger. They had dared the might of Austria, who was supported by Germany, and refused the humiliating terms which were offered them. ...
... m Here's the chance you've been waiting for to fly with the R.A.F. Be a Pilot (age 18-30), Air Observer (18-32) or Wireless Operator /Air Gunner (18/32). The rapidly ex panding Royal Air Force calls for volunteers NOW Men under 33 can still volunteer. Apply now if you are (a) between 20 and 32 and have registered for any of the services but have not yet been posted, or (b) if you are 18 or 1 9 ...
... AERO ENGINES FOR SPEED AND RELIABILITY SPITFIRES AND HURRICANES The success of the Spitfire and the Hurricane is due in a large part to the development of the Rolls-Royce 'Merlin' liquid-cooled motor, which develops more than 1,000 h.p. The 'Merlin' gives the Spitfire a top speed of 367 m.p.h. and the Hurricane, a bigger aeroplane, a maximum of 335 m.p.h. No praise is too high for the way they ...
... Ik ecisive 'Satt/es^\ !f|jf .1 h of the florid b IuL TET h J TP I r i p? The British fleet smashes Napoleon's sea power, and confines him to Europe m M j; Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 X SreC I IN the five-hour sea battle off Trafalgar Cape, Britain ended Napoleon's bid for world mastery through destruction of British sea power and invasion and conquest of England. fY 'f In his two ...
... Health in this war is not only a matter of organising defences against the bacilli battalions. Its keynote is individual health keeping fit, as fit as possible By C. Patrick Thompson THE Four Horsemen are riding again across the world. But two have not yet reached this em battled island, and even their shadow seems remote. They are Famine and Pestilence. In fact, one of the most remarkable ...
... Chinese Funeral yVotherhood Sometimes asks too much Sometimes too Little by Marjorie Hessell Tiltman IT was hotter than ever that afternoon, with the fierce dry heat of an oven. No one who could help it was putting as much as a nose out of doors. The fields of peanuts and kaoliang were bare of workers; the tradesmen and the hawkers were lolling about with one eye open and the other shut; the ...
... CIFE below STAIRS At this stage most of us have worked out a private security technique, something best suited to our own house holds and personal needs. Just the same, winter will bring the need for adaptations, so that our comfort and security in air raids may be brought into line with new conditions. Moreover, it is essential to give a more permanent character to A.R.P. arrangements in the ...