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First With The Jets

HE. 1000, By Ernst Heinkel. Edited by Itingen Thorwald. (Hutchinson, 30s.) IT is now recognised that the Germans were the first to build and to fly an aeroplane with a turbojet,......

New Novels

THE novels of Cesare Pavese, who died young in 1950. °f , beginning to reach us in English—atmospheric essays 1 oy A than novels proper, and conjuring, rather than individuals......

What The Commis Saw

;Ito THIS is an anthology of the best of Ludwig Bemelmans's humoro lit stories of pantry life in hotels. Some of them have been s light changed, all have been illustrated by the......

A Lag Looks Back

BORSTAL AND BETTER. By Richard Maxwell. (Hollis and C s 16s.) vidl ENGLAND has, we know, much to be proud of. Her virtues Pr ° 0I the theme of songs and ballads; the bravery and......