10 DECEMBER 1943, page 20

Coloured and Plain THERE is a Certain kinship between these two of the last batch of "Britain in Pictures" volumes, for the kind of man who kept a jour- nal was likely to be the......

Fiction

Comedy in Chains. By Dennis Gray Stoll. (Gollancz. 75. 6d.) The Small Back Room. By Nigel Balchin. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) Two unusually interesting novels this week—that makes......

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