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New Novels

The Daughters of Mrs. Peacock. By Gerald Bullett. (Dent, 15s.) The Talented Mr. Ripley. By Patricia Highsmith. (Cresset Press, 15s.) ALL six of the novels listed above are for......

Mixed Misses

ARE the Victorians Coming Back?' asked Humphry House in one of his papers, and to his `catchpenny question' (as he called it) he answered 'Yes.' Miss Thomson's book is yet......