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The New Review July 1940

1940

As regards differences between the foot of a European and a Solomon Islander that of the latter is more massive and broader especially i the male lacking the `elegance' (usuall pathological) of the European fooi The toes of a native are straight 1i parallel with the ground and are sprea out so that the inner and outer border of the foot are two straight line Occasionally the great toe is abdu [...] In regard to labour the government had as its purpose the of economic life in such a way as `to maintain wages and working conditions on a subsistence basis which however inadequate was nevertheless stable and dependable.' When one looks at the legislation of 1563 in the early years of Elizabeth's reign there can be no doubt of the definiteness of the then prevailing policy of the government t [...] To quote the Webbs 'by the celebrated Statute of Apprentices" the statesmen of the time contrived arrangements which would as they hoped "yield unto the hired person both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty a convenient proportion of wages".' Basing his statement on Blackstone Lecky asserts : `during the whole of the 1.8th century the famous law of Elizabeth determining the cond [...] WAR MEASURES In the medley of suggested war measures the opening of Gliding Schools may be singled out as one of the best4 THE NEW REVIEW and the organising of non-official guards as one of the worst. [...] weekly masterpieces on the ordinary things that lie at the roots of an ordinary man's heart like a sixpenny lunch or the two bob on the Winner or on being rather idle and that the collections of these gay deliverances in composite bunches have been given a local habitation and a namE under pretty titlgs such as The Blue Lion TheROBERT AND SYLVIA LYND 11 Orange Tree The Peal of the Bells The
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Pages
102
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120030
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii A.S.J. Lallemand view
This Side and That
1-8 unknown view
Robert and Sylvia Lynd
9-19 J.P. Fonseka view
The Executive in Local Administration
20-33 K. Jayaraman view
How Old is Poona ?
34-41 A. Rehm view
New People on Old Soil
42-50 P. Krieger view
The Poet’s Eye
51-55 F.J. Friend-Pereira view
Drops of Confusion
56-70 J.F Caius view
That Tell-Tale Handwriting
71-81 T.N. Siqueira view
Some Recent Books
82-88 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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