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Choice Ot Aliens

Modern German Stories. Edited by H. M. Waid- son. (Faber, 18s.) Best SF Four. Edited by Edmund Crispin. (Faber, 15s.) The Heart of London. By Monica Dickens. (Michael Joseph,......

Holy Terror

The First Five Lives of Annie Besant. By Arthur Nethercot. (Hart-Davis, 42s.) VICTORIAN England was rich in talent, moral fervour and eccentricity, but even by Victorian......

Waist-high Packard

The Waste Makers. By Vance Packard. (Long- mans, 21s.) I Am tired of woe-woe books about America, especially if they are by Mr. ,Vance Packard. I yield to no one in my......