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Fiction

The Man Who Loved Children. By Christina Stead. (Peter Davies. los. 6d.) No Homeward Course. By Walter Havighurst. (Peter Davies. Is.) SAM POLLIT, an anthropologist, is the......

Self-portrait

The Chesterton. By Mrs. Cecil Chesterton. (Chapman an I2S. 6d.) THE most obvious feature of Mrs. Chesterton's book is steady under-current of rather petty dislike : dislike of......