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Mirth-maker.

"HERE we are again!" With a screech of laughter, the Clown jumps through the painted wall of time, turns a somersault head- first into the present, and comes down upon our stage......

The Mood Of Doubt

ALL IN DUE TIME: The Essays and Broadcasts of Humphry House. (Hart-Davis, 15s.) HUMPHRY HOUSE was that literary rarity, a scholar who fused fact and judgement, a critic who......

New Novels

STORM. By FitzGerald O'Connor. (Collins, 8s. 6d.) AFTER The Bridge of San Luis Rey there came such a spate of novels in which five or six very disparate characters found them-......