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Why Women Wear Clothes. By C. Willett Ctmnington. (faber%...

6d.) DR. CUNNINGTON writes of "Man " and " Woman " and has in addition a somewhat inelastic theory of a sexual nature to account for kid-gloves or flowers in a hat (" primitive......

By Gun And Poison

7s. 6d.) Death at the Helm. By John Rhode. (Crime Club. 8s.) THIS collection includes specimens from the three main types of detective-story; four of the murder-puzzle disguised......

Shorter Notices

The Land of Saint Joan. By Owen Rutter. (Methuen. 15s.) MR. RurrEa's book is interesting for several reasons. It describes a pilgrimage to the towns and villages associated with......

Fiction

The Lie Triumphant. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s.) IN my last review I asked : where are the novelists?—and scarcely were the words in the letterbox when out of my......