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Bright Black

Whale Adventure. By Willard Price. (Cape, 13s. 6d.) Dangerous Journeys. Selected by Leonard Roe. (Hamish Hamilton, 8s. 6d.) IT used to be the fashion—perhaps it still is—to......

Plain Things And Coloured

The Rib of the Green Umbrella. By Naomi Mitchison. (Collins, 10s, 6d.) By now one knows what to expect of Naomi Mitchison : one knows that she will be strongly, if sometimes......