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A Russian Remembers

Old Friends and New Music, By Nicolas Nabokov. (Hamish Ham- ilton. us. 6d.) THIS is a book of loosely connected jottings, beginning and ending with pure autobiography but......

Farming In War-time

A Farmer in WhitehalL By Anthony Hurd. (Country Life. 5s.) MANY who farmed through the war, concerned with the ordinary and daily worries inseparable from their work and......

A Lost Opportunity

Castlereagh. By lone L eigh. (Collins. 2 is.) A ONE-VOLUME biography of Castlereagh is much needed. It is true that all the materials for a complete one do not yet exist ; but......