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Bedside Book

JOHN ROWAN WILSON The New Dimensions of Medicine Alan Norton (Hodder and Stoughton 50s) In recent years a healthy realisation has grown up that medicine is no longer a mys-......

Bear Up Chaps

RODNEY ACKLAND Novel on Yellow Paper or Work it out for yourself Stevie Smith (Cape 30s) A packed house at the Grand Archetypal Ideal World Theatre of Varieties. Star turn about......

Light Work

MICHAEL BORRIE Europe in the Dark Ages Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher, W. F. Volbach (Thames and Hud- son 210s) Bishop Burnet remarked, in his Travels (1687), that in the great......