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New Fiction

Earthly Creatures. By Charles Jackson. (Peter Nevill. II s. 6d.) WHEN he costes to the short story, the author of The Long Weekend proves to be a little self-conscious. In an......

Quaker History The Story of Quakerism. By Elfrida Vipont. (Bannisdale Press. I 2s, 6d.) THE sense of history has been with the Quakers since the beginning. With a rare sense of......

West Indies

History of the British West Indies. By Sir Alan Burns. (George Allen and Unwin. 70s.) THE publishers make two claims for this history of the British West Indies: that it covers......