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Scotland Yard's Revenge

Six Against the Yard. (Selwyn and Blount. 78. 6d.) The President's Mystery Story. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) DETECTIVE-FICTION writers, with their gifted amateurs who make rings......

The Art Of Conversation Good Talk. By Esme...

Dickson. 6s.) Tuts " Study of the Art of Conversation " is pleasant and thorough, but Mr. Wingfield-Stratford does himself con- siderable disservice by leaving the most......

Sean O'faolain

Bird Alone. By Sean O'Faolain. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) THE achievement of the author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was as much one of demolition as of creation.......