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White Shepheard's Watched. By Pennethorne Hughes....

(Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6d.) MR. HUGHES was brought to Egypt by the fortunes of war and the B.B.C., and has now written a book about that much described but little understood......

A Short History Of English Literature. By B. Ifor Evans.

(Staples 7s. 6d.) IN this two-hundred-page view of the whole of English literature the bones are all there and in the right proportions - ; but the modelling of the flesh is......

Shorter Notices

An Essay on the Content of Education. By Eric James. (Harrap. 5s.) IN this short book of just over a hundred pages the High Master of Manchester Grammar School raises many of......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS As had seemed inevitable, ordinary share prices have now broken through the post-war low point established in the convertibility crisis of September, 1947. To those......