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The Queen's Wales: South Wales. By H. L. V. Fletcher.

(Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.) In a novelist or a biographer has fallen on hard times he is hereby tipped off to get himself signed up for one of the regional guides or......

An Odd Fish Old Fourlegs. By J. L. B. Smith.

(Longmans, 21s.) THERE is usually a row going on between the Augustans in at least one department of the Natural History Museum in London and the tough, publish-and-be-damned......

Two Generals

COOTE BAHADUR. By E. W. Sheppard. (Werner Laurie, 25s.) AN acute attack of ettr; is likely to be the curious result of reading the lives of these two eighteenth-century......

A Cocteau Collection

PARIS ALBUM 1900-1914. By Jean Cocteau. (W. H. Allen, 16s.) WHEN he was a child Jean Cocteau hated to get useful presents. The magic of Christmas was ruined for him by a......