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The Poets' Corner. By Max Beerbohm. — British Freshwater...

By J. R. Norman.—A Book of Lilies. By Fred Stoker. The Bayeux Tapestry. (King Penguin. as. each.) The Poets' Corner first appeared nearly forty years ago. Published in an......

Midland Bank.

The date of the annual meeting . of the Midland Bank January 27th, not, as inadvertently stated in last week's Special January 19th. wag. or,......

Autobiography. By Margiad Evans. (blackwell. 8s. 6d.)

THIS book differs from most autobiographies in describing obj rather than people and in the serene quality of its happiness. " Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard......

Bombers Fly East. By Bruce Sanders. (herbert Jenkins. 8s....

Ground Staff. By Squadron-Leader A. J. Brown. (Eyre and Spouts. woode. ios. 6d.) IT is difficult to write about the RAF without being obvious, and Squadron-Leader Brown, who is......

Very Little Straightforward Narrative Poetry Is Written...

story of the Merchant Marine, an elaborate and sophisticated descendant of the ballad, belongs to a good tradition and retains , the three essential qualities of the......

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......

Regional Planning. By L. B. Escritt. (allen And Unwin. 12s.

6d.) THERE are many approaches to town and country planning. Mr. Escritt, deprecating the architectural approach, claims for planning the status of a deductive science based on......