MR. BULKELEY AND THE PIRATE edited by B. D. RobertsOxford ($3).
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN NICOL, MARINERedited by Alexander LaingFarrar & Rinehart ($4).
In the attics and among the heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was...
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