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American Views Of Rabelais

Francis Rabelais : the Man and his Work. By Albert Jay Nock and C. R. Wilson. (Harper. 15s.) Frangois Rabelais : Man of the Renaissance. A Spiritual Biography. By Samuel Putnam.......

The Secret Of Chekhov

That Worthless Fellow Platonov. By Anton Chekhov. Trans. lated from the Russian by John Cournos. (Dent. 6s.) IT would be unfair to apply the ordinary principles of criticism to......

Russia's Five-year Plan

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead. The Five-year Plan for Economic Construction. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) Illsrorry is not without honour save in its own generation. A few decades......