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East Coaster

ONCE UPON A TIDE. By Hervey Benham. (Harrap, 18s.) FROivi Defoe to Dickens, or the two centuries which lie just beyond the reach of memory, is the period covered in Once Upon a......

Short Stories

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RHYS DAVIES. (Heinemann, 18s.) His Collected Stories are a monument to Rhys Davies's immense integrity. At one time or another almost every writer of......