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Shorter Notices

g'isden Cricketers' Almanack /968 edited by Norman Preston (Sporting Handbooks 25s). Under headings such as 'Handled Ball,' 'Ob- structing the Field' and 'Remarkable Analyses,'......

Early Irishry

PETER VANSITTART The Quest of Three Abbots Brendan Lehane (John Murray 42s) Saint Patrick R. P. C. Hanson (our 30s) Mr Lehane sub-jitles his book 'Pioneers in Ireland's Golden......

New Thrillers

Clerk and dagger PETER PARLEY Only When 1 Larf Len Deighton (Sphere 5s) The Great Spy Race Adam Diment (Michael Joseph 25s) The Nearing Storm Desmond Donnelly (Hutch- inson 27s......