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New Novels

The Farmer's Hotel. By John O'Hara. (Cresset Press. 8s. 6d.) THAT Mr. O'Hara should have written the uneasy trifle that goes by the title of The Farmer's Hotel is the most......

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An American Feat

IN February, 1927, Lindbergh stretched a piece of grocery string on a globe in a public library and found that the distance from New York to Paris was 3,600 miles. The aeroplane......