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Fiction

los., 6d.) THE size of the twentieth-century family ia not a reason usually given for the condensation of the novel, but it certainly makes pos- sible a _picture of family-life......

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......