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War-time Cambridge

Letters from Cambridge, 1939-1944. By A. S. F. Gow. (Cape. 10s. 6c1. ) MR. Gow was till a year or two ago a tutor at Trinity, the author of one or two erudite classical works, a......

Fiction

The Building of Jalna. By Mazo de la Roche. (Macmillan. 9s. 6d.) • THE house has long been useful to the novelist as a Symbol for family life, by describing it he can indicate......

Islands Of Example

Inheritance of Dreams. By John Drummond. (Faber. 10s. 6d.) "THIS book is to be different—just straight me and you. . . . I will tell everything—concealing nothing." So begins......