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Fiction

Pled Piper. By Nevil Shute. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) Uneasy Freehold. By Dorothy Macardle: (Peter Davies. Ss. 6d.) MEMORY, like a ghost, haunts thc present and the future: the......

Island Birds

Shearwaters. By R. M. Lockley.' (Dent. Iss.) In Search of Northern Birds. By Seton Gordon. (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 15s.) THE topography of Britain provides......

Shorter Notices

THE story of how the Good Soldier Schweik's kindred are deai- . ing with the situation in the present war is told here in 140 Page s ' They cover, however, more than the efforts......