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Good Ghost Stories Arc Uncommon, But This Collection...

6d.), whose very title suggests a promising theme, contains plenty. There is the brilliant and horrible study of madness closing in like a net in " The Yellow Wall- Paper," a......

Cromwell Is The Figure In English History To Whom Herr

Hitler is most often compared. In this short essay (Cambridge University Press,' 3s: 6d:), originally delivered as a lecture • to a German audience, Professor Barker ana- lyses......

Progress And Catastrophe By Stanley Casson

Mr. Casson has set out to discover the reason for the switchback nature of human progress. In this book (Hamish Hamilton, 7s. 6d.) he discusses Paleo- lithic man, Neolithic man......

Arc The English, One Wonders, Reading N I .s Chase's

charming sketches (Collins, 8s. 6d.) really as English as all that ? Or, rather, is England so like the England of American novels, that tranquil, unchanging country where it is......

Hitler, Whence And Whither ? By Wickham Steed

The fact that Mr. Wickham Steed's well-known book (Nisbet, 4s. 6d.) has reached a fifth edition within three years is sufficient testimonial to its value. The latest edition is......