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The Naked Lady By Bernard Falk

The Naked Lady (Hutchinson, 18s.) presents a neat psycho- logical problem : Will the title sell the book, or will readers' better natures be outraged by its price ? It is a poor......

Cobbers

By Thomas Wood Dr. Wood's narrative (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.) of his journeyings through Australia—a narrative excellently written and adequately illustrated—should......

Desert Cactus

By Julie Heyneman This biography of the American sculptor Arthur Rackham (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.) moves with an undercurrent of tragedy independent of the author's processes of......

Cassiar

By M. Conway Turton To endeavour to reproduce the peculiar " significance and type " of a particular country in such a delicate series of descriptive essays as those which......

Current Literature

SPAIN : A BRIEF HISTORY By W. C. Atkinson It is surprising that the appearance in this year of a short history of Spain should fill a long-felt want : and yet before Professor......