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Last Days In Malaya

The Civil Defence of Malaya. Compiled by a Committee under th Chairman;hip of Sir George Maxwell. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) THIS book purports to be as accurate an account as can be......

A Short History Of German (methuen. 6s.)

Shorter Notices • Literature. By Gilbert Waterhouse. PROFESSOR WATERnonsE's book is intended primarily for university students, but also for the general reader. As usual with......

Scratch Many A Naturalist And You Will Find A Poet.

There was a poet in Jefferies and one in Hudson ; and there is one in Mr. Grant Watson. An ardent inquirer, a reporter of the curious in nature, and a collector of significant......

The Authors Of This Gay Trifle Tell How, As Young

girls, they crosse d the Atlantic, unchaperoned, in search o f Europe ; which meant reallY , in spite of halts in London and elsewhere, Paris, France. They gil.! now their own......

Fiction

Young Tom. By Forrest Reid. (Faber and Faber. 7 5. 6d.) The Barber's Trade Union and Other Stories. By Mulk Rai Anand. (tape. 7s. 6d.) Sweet is the Rose. By Helen Douglas......