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Concerning Winston Churchill. By Sir George Arthur....

WRITING biographies of the Prime Minister is a popular diversion in these days, and if anyone is making a collection of these publications there is no reason why Sir George......

A London Family Between The Wars. By M. Vivian Hughes.

(Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) MRS. HUGHES' family chronicle ambles agreeably on. A widow with two sons, she settles in "a semi-detached " at Cuffley, and is a little coy......

Drawings From Life. By Eric Gill. :hague And Gill. 7s.

6d. THIS book was evidently prepared for the Press before Eric Gill's death. It will not alter his reputation. " I do not wish to discuss here the art of drawing in its......

The Shelter Book. An Entertainment Devised By Clemente...

6s.) The Shelter Book. An Entertainment devised by Clemente Dane (Longman's. 6s.) THIS is an anthology of stories, poems, quotations, games, all mixed up with pieces of advice......

Under The Greenwood Tree. By Thomas Hardy. With Wood...

by Clare Leighton. (Macmillan. 14. 6d.) THE stiff stoney style of Thomas Hardy, with his characters like country tombstones, is here matched with Miss Clare Leighton's woodcuts.......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS BErrER than expected will be the verdict of most investors on the performance of the stock markets in 1940. In the equity groups there have been some casualties, but......

Benes. By Edward F. Hitchcock. (hanish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.)

" WITH Dr. Benes's consent," writes the author of this eulogistic biography a little oddly (for Dr. Benes does not rule the waves), " I crossed the Atlantic in December of 1939,......