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The Land Of Cricket

Cricket Country. By Edmund Blunden. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) Boors published in wartime tend to divide themselves into two classes, war books and nostalgic books. This boOk is in the......

Patterns Of Power

THIS book sets out to do two things: to show that power corrupts and to trace the rise of tyranny since Rousseau's diversion of man', thoughts from God to himself. These two......

The Bug-destroyer

Cockney Campaign. By Frank R. Lewey, With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee, M.P., P.C. (Stanley Paul. r6s.) " HrrLEtt,"' suggests Mr. Lewey, "may live in history as......