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The Gloucester Festival Of 1928 Was Overshadowed By The...

of Sir Herbert Brewer. He was actively preparing the choirs for the event when he was suddenly taken ill. For a long time those who knew him and loved him best could not believe......

Half A Dozen Well-known Experts In Anthropology And...

responsible for the stimulating volume on Early Man : His Origin, Development and Culture (Benn, 8s. 6d.)—a series of lectures delivered for the Royal Anthro- pological......

Current Literature

A Kscrui, and trustworthy sketch of the history of engineering is provided in The Quest for Power, by Hugh P. and Mar- garet W. ' Vowles (Chapman and Hall, 15s.). The authors......

Mr. Graham Robertson Has A Great Deal Of New Gossip

to tell about old times. There is a particularly appetising flavour about his frank gaiety, sly humour, common-sense criticism and occasional sentimentality. Time Was (Hamish......

Fiction

Novel Forms Sado. By William Plomer. (Hogarth Press. 7s. 6d.) THE novel long ago ceased to be merely the telling of a tale, with or without an implication : the question asks......

There Should Be Many Readers, Especially On The...

of the House of Commons, for the sixth edition of the late Charles Duguid's How to Read the Money Article, revised by Mr. F. W. H. Caudwell (Effingham Wilson, 5s.). Duguid, the......