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Reverberations

The Woodshed. By Rayner Heppenstall. (Barrie and Rockliff. 16s.) The Time Before This. By Nicholas Monsarrat. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) OSKAR MATZERATH, native, like his creator, of......

True Observation

A Hong Kong House. By Edmund Blunden. (Collins, 21s.) The Swans of Berwick. By Sidney Tremayne. (Chatto and Windus:Hogarth Press, 10s. 6d.) WHETHER about individual poems or......