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This Is -really More Like A Series Of After-dinner...

than a planned and proportioned autobiography, and, as the latter, it suffers a little in consequence. But if it is somewhat disconnected, the author's method—or lack of......

A Rough Walk Home And Other Poems. By Lilian Bowes

Lyon (Cape. 2s. 6d.) THE sixteen poems (one French) in this small book were written during years of war and almost continuous pain. This may partly account for their quality of......

Fiction Continental Revue. By Winifred Bambrick. (faber...

6d.) The Sixth Heaven is the second volume of Mr. Hartley's trilogy on the life of Eustace Cherrington, the first, The Shrimp and the Anemone, being published in 1944. The third......

The Theatre Through The Ages : . By James Cleaver....

IN his preface Mr. Cleaver draws attention to the growing interest in dramatic performances as part of the scheme of education ; on his last page he expresses his belief that "......

Shorter Notices

The Dartmoor Scene. By Kenneth F. Day. (Muller. 7s. 6d.) A bock on Dartmoor could hardly choose a better time for its appearance than this, when the whole future of the moor is......