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Albany

Peace in Piccadilly. By Sheila Birkenhead. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) LADY BIRKENHEAD deserves to be congratulated upon this admirable history of what the cog- noscenti, so I......

Travel

Disquieted American Wylie. (Muller, 21s.) MR. WYLIE went to newly born grandchild I and returned to the United States via Japan, Ind though he sees the through the USIS w......

White Magic

Black Star Rising. By Russell Warren Howe. (Herbert Jenkins, 21s.) Ma. MORRIS has travelled through an increasingly isolated, anachronistic, telephone-tapping society and......

Biography

Raw Material D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: The Scholar- Naturalist 1860-1948. By His Daughter Ruth D'Arcy Thompson. (O.U.P., 25s.) Parachutes and Petticoats. By Brigitte Friang.......