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Books Of The Week

Old Man Thames Time on the Thames. By Eric de Mare. (Architectural Press. 21s.) A RECENT American film celebrating the work of the Tennessee Valley Authority presented us with......

In Next Week's " Spectator" Lord Pakenham Will Review "

The -k Critical Years " by General Baron Geyr von Schweppenburg, the Bishop of- Southwell " The Christian Society ' 2 by Bishop- Stephen Neill, Sir Norman Birkett a new edition......

Half A Century Of India

IN a book about India, by a writer whose connection with that country extends over fifty years, one half expects to find nostalgia and sentimental regret as the dominant note.......