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New. Novels

The Good-for-Nothing. By James Yaffe. (Constable. 10s. 60.) OUR four novels this week provide some very pleasant reading, nothing spectacular, nothing of exceptional literary......

Problems Of Design •

Design in Town and Village. (H.M.S.O. 7s. 6d.) THAT the Minister of Housing and Local Government should have himself launched an official treatise on Design in Town and Village......

Scotland Two Centuries Ago

The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century. By Marjorie Plant. (Edinburgh University Press. 25s.) THE most casual student of the eighteenth century in Scotland must......