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Cover: A British Tribute to a Great American: An Artist's Impression of the Layout for the Proposed (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt Memorial in Grosvenor Square. Features include: Our Notebook; The World of Science: Meteorites and Meteors; A Cast Iron Ring 2500 Years Old: Further Discoveries in the Byci Skala Cave; 100,000 Years of Central European History: Recent Moravian Discoveries Related to the Story of Man; Book Review: "Four Studies in Loyalty": by Christopher Sykes; Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The King Opens Parliament in Semi-State: Historic Pageantry Tempered by Austerity; Veteran Cars in the London to Brighton 50th Anniversary Run; For the Grand Tour or Round of Calls: A Museum of Carriages; The Price of the Palestine Mandate: British Losses in a New "Reign of Terror"; In Honourable Retirement After Many a Hazardous Duty: The Little Ships of the Navy at Anchor; Maritime and Other News Items; From Aircraft to Car - And Vice Versa - In Seven Minutes!; A Great Meteor as Seen in New Mexico, USA (1933); To Clean or Not to Clean (Art Restoration); Restoring Confidence and Self-Reliance in Blinded Servicemen: Work and Recreation at St. Dunstan's (Illus. by Capt. Bryan de Grineau); From the World's Scrapbook; and Postscripts of Two Wars: Air and Fire Disasters. Page 581/582 missing. Page 595/596 loose but present. Contents clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book