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0, My America

JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW. By J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes. (Heinemann, 18s.) MR. AND MRS. PRIESTLEY have visited the American South-West. At Kansas City they parted......

Universal Aunt

IN these decades of Perelman puns and Bemelmans whimsy, of the needle instead of the hammer, our grandfathers' humour is usually a source of embarrassment. Even Gilbert we......

New Novels

JUSTIN BAYARD. By Jon Cleary. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE TIGRESS ON THE HEARTH. By Margery Sharp. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) 'Ten general impression was sandy. . . . Over the shaven upper......