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Between Two Englands

At Home: Memoirs. By William Plomer. (Jona- than Cape, 16s.) WHEN he was in his middle twenties, and the century nudging its thirties, William Plomer left Japan and began the......

New Novels

The Transgressor. By Julian Green. (Heinemann, 15s.) Home From the Hill. By William Humphrey. (Chatto and Windus, 16s.) The Mark of the Warrior. By Paul Scott. (Eyre and......

The Boot On The Other Foot

ONE of my earliest memories is of being con- fronted, in a roomful of unnaturally quiet good children, with what I recognised as the uppers of a boot without a sole; and of the......