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Ill Fares The Land . . .

Food, Farming and the Future. By Friend Sykes. (Faber. 2 IS.) IN spite of its redundancy, lack of style, clumsy arrangement of material and the intrusion of such shocking jargon......

A Photographer As Critic Literary Britain. Photographed...

with an introduction by John Hayward: (Cassell. 4;s.) THIS is the most distinguished book of photographs that has appeared in this country for some years. It consists of 100......

A Novel Revised .

Simpson. By Edward Sackvidle-West. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 121. 6d.) Simpson, the most naturalistic of Mr. Sackville-Wesrs_ novels, was first published in 1931. Now, twenty......

Mitigated Scepticism

David Hume: His Theory of Knowledge and Morality. By D. C. C. MacNabb. (Hutchinson. 75. 6d.) IT is almost as uncomfortable to actept the doctrines of Hume as it is to reject......