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There Is No Young Artist Today With A Greater Sense

of the gro- tesque and the mysterious than Mr. Pe.ake. His imagination is akin to Mr. De la Mare's, only more robust. The child with salamander hair peering from his dark tower......

Don't Blame Me. By Richard Hughes. (chatto And Windus. 51.)

THE distinguished author of High Wind in Jamaica found him- self when war came host to seven small evacuated children from Birkenhead. "After a few months, one by one they all......

For Younger Readers—ii

Cue for Treason. By Geoffrey Trease. (Blackwell. 5s.) Mutiny in the Caribbean. By G. W. Keeton. (Bell. 68.) The House in the Mountains. By Averil Demuth. (Hamish Hamilton.......

Shor Ter Notices

Four to Fourteen. A Catalogue of Books for Boys and Girls. (National Book Council. 9d.) Four to Fourteen. A Catalogue of Books for Boys and Girls. (National Book Council. 9d.)......