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MISOGYNY OVER THE WEEK-END. By Ronald McNair Scott. (Macmillan. 6s.)—A

house-party novel which consists, as Rodney the misogynist observed, " almost entirely of talk." The formula is as old as Peacock, but the guests are well chosen, and the talk is brilliant : far too witty and erudite, of course (it is even annotated) but various and stimulating.