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Middle-east Background

The Arabs and the West. By Clare Hollingworth. (Methuen. 21s.) MISS HOLLINGWORTH spent most of the years 1940-1950 as a news- paper-correspondent in the Middle East, and has......

Fiction

East of Eden. By John Steinbeck. (Heinemann. 15s.) Young Men Waiting. By Chapman Mortimer. (Cresset Press. 12s. 6d.) NEVER, I think, a writer who has let imagination get the......

For The Practical Fisherman

Tins book contains less for the fireside reader than others in the New Naturalist Series, and more for the practical man who requires a reference-work at the water's edge. The......