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Fiction

dim Comes Home is the story of an English soldier who goes on leave in defiance of a last-minute cancellation and stays away for twenty-one anxious days. Frank Tilsley's main......

Genteel Decay

Watering Place. By Robert LiddelL (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) A VEIN of rather chilly malice is often to be detected in those brought up by aunts. With some—Saki, for instance—the......

Shorter Notices

Pacific Partner. By George H. Johnston. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Tim book by a well-known Australian war correspondent gives a lively and well-informed account of the activity of the......