28 JANUARY 1944, page 20

First Steps In Advocacy. By Leo Page. (faber. 6s.)

THE writer of this instructive and entertaining little book justifies its publication in advance by pointing out that while the future barrister is required to post himself in......

Shorter Notices

The Cornhill. (John Murray. 2S. 6d.) THIS month sees the first issue of a new Cornhill under the editor- ship of Peter Quennell. Both editor and publisher are to be con-......

Fiction

Sailor's Song. By James Hanley. (Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) Word Without End. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.) Pathfinders. By Cecil Lewis. (Peter Davies. 9s.......

Intergiossa. By Lancelot Hogben. (pelican Press. 9d.)

MR. LANCELOT HOGBEN is fast qualifying as Public Crank No. After his Mathematics for the Million, a sort of assimilable mathe- matical margarine (whose lack of vitamins was......

Prehistoric Britain. By Jacquetta And Christopher Hawkes....

• IN this brilliant book the well-known archaeologists, Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes, have told the fascinating story of Prehistoric Britain, that is Britain from the Palaeolithic and......