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Rural Scene

The Poacher's Handbook. By Ian Niall. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) BOOKS about the country tend to be polemical, preaching the virtues of compost heaps with what Sir William Beach......

Dr. Buchman's Way

The World Rebuilt. By Peter Howard. (Blandford Press. 23. 6d.) MoRE people probably have been irritated than inspired by what has been known successively as the Oxford Groups,......

Shakespeare On The Stage

On Producing Shakespeare. By Ronald Watkins, (Michael Joseph. 2 IS,) Producing Shakespeare. By C. B. Purdom.: (Pitman. i Ss.) Ir is a sign of the times that these two books......