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BEACON CROSS. By Dunn Severiek. (Grayson. 7s. (Id.) The story

of a Layman's Crusade for religion, and of a strategic anti-crusade which got badly entangled with Communism. Brickbats, love, speed-racing and modernity in general redeem Beacon Cross from the embarrassment which this type of fiction can too often cause.