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THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF THE CHILD. By Jean Piaget. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d.)—This book is a seri ous contribution• to the continuously increasing mass of literature dealing......
A Deputy Was King. By G. B. Stern. (chapman And
Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss G. B. Stern's clever new book falls into two unequal halves. The first is devoted to a lively description of the adventures in business and marriage of......
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JOHN MILTON : POEMS IN ENGLISH. " With illus- trations by ' William Blake.' (Noiriesuch Press: 2 vols. £2 7s: MI. net.)—The minds cif" Blake and Milton' do not fit easily......
Sea Whispers. By W. W. Jacobs. (hodder And Stoughton. 7s.
6d. net.)—Mr. Jacobs is irresistible when he writes of trios of artful sailormen, and impressive when his tales are more sombre ones of tragedies among common, humdrum mortals.......
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THE EXQUISITE PERDITA. By E. Barrington. (Harrap. 7s. 6d. net.)—Nothing less like The Memoirs of Perdita published in 1784 . than the present gay embroidery on the same ground......
Doctor Doliitle's Zoo. By Hugh Lofting. (jonathan Cape....
children who are already acquainted with Doctor Dolittle will welcome Mr. Hugh Lofting's latest addition to the Dolittle Books. For those who have not had the good fortune to......
Unquenchable Fire. By Joan Sutherland. (cassell. 7s. 6d....
only to grant a haggard, handsome actor nursing an appalling secret, and a brave, handsome actress of most womanly parts, and set their course in motion against a background of......
The Ruin. By . Edward Sackville-west. (heinemann. 7s. 6d....
of Mr. Sackville-West is large, his diction unaffected, his powers of description remarkable. It is not even any fault in his characterizations which makes this new novel more......
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