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Henry Iv. Part Ii. Edited By J. D. Wilson (cambridge

University Press. 8s. 6d.) THESE two volumes continue Dr. John Dover Wilson's labours as editor of the New Shakespeare, seventeen volumes, of which have already been published.......

In Praise Of Cricket. An Anthology Compiled By John Aye.*

(Muller. 2s. 6d.) IT is rather surprising that a first-rate game like cricket should inspire prose and verse which is mostly second rate, or worse. Functionalism has this in its......

Shorter Notices The Boon Of The Atom. By George Bankoff,

M.D., F.R.C.S. (Faber and Faber. 6s.) IT is a difficult task to condense and explain in relatively simple language the present conceptions of matter and energy and to record the......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS INTERN/mom% politics flanked by falling prices on - - Wall Street, have again cast their:shadow over the London market. What is more remarkable than the damping......

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