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New Novels

FRANCIS KING has chosen the interesting and comparatively neglected subject of parasitism for his latest novel The Man on the Rock. Spiro Polymerides is a Greek boy, a peasant,......

Four Lives

Memoirs of a Public Baby. By Philip O'Connor, introduction by (Faber, 18s.) Stephen Spender. True Account. By Ernest W. D. Tennant. (Max Parrish, 21s.) THE first seven years of......