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"0 Famous Kent"

Kent. By Richard Church. The County Books. (Hale. 15s.) DRAYTON'S apostrophe in the Polyolltion admirably fits Mr. Church's panegyric of the county, and that though he is a......

The First Ten Years

The History of the British Film; 1844-1906. By Rachel Low and Roger Manvell. (Allen and Unwin. 21s.) FOR more reasons than one, the critics and the historians have always......

Fiction

Mn. ALEX COMFORT, in his profoundly interesting book on the modern novel, poses a test question: "Is this writer capable of recognising a human being?" And, lest there be a......