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The Unending Quest. By Sir Paul Dukes. (cassell. 16s.) Rhe

least interesting portion of this very. interesting book is the portion to which the author himself appears to attach most Importance, that dealing with the principles and......

History Today. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Edited By...

and Alan Hodge. January, 1951; February, 195!. (2s. 6d. each.) ArrEssrrs by editors or publishers to set out the aims and objects of their publica- tions usually make painful......

Shorter Notices

Cinderella of Europe: Spain Explained. By Sheila M. O'Callaghan. (Skeffington. 1 2S. 6d.) WHAT is it about Spain that makes the English—and, alas, the Irish—lose their heads ?......

It Was High Time For A Translation Into English Of

Der SS-Staat, that remarkable study of the concentration camps under Hitler. The Nazi concentration camp pro- vided a particular and dreadful aspect of National Socialism,......

A Short History Of The English Novel. By It Would

be wrong to demand originality from a history of the novel. The facts are legion, but most of them have been mar shalled, and when the newcomers ha..e fallen in, it only remains......