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The Course Of The Corset

The History of Underclothes. By C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington. (Michael Joseph. 3os.) THE Doctors Cunnington are firmly established as the historians of British clothes, and......

The Seeing Eye

Where - You Are Old. By Gwendolen Freeman. (Allen & Unwin. 95. 6d.) " •SYMPATHY " is a much-misused word ; like " charity " it has come dOWn in the world, even if not quite so......

New Novels

To. Seize a Dream. By Virginia Hersch. (Hutchinson. t HOVERING obscurely between the worlds of history and imagination, the historical novel risks everything if it comes too......