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Humour.

Family Reunion. By Ogden Nash. (Dent. 8s. 6d.) Back to the Slaughterhouse. By Ronald Searle. (Macdonald. 6s.) THAT Mr. Wodehouse is—or do we say " was " ?—a master of his craft......

Greenshanks Close To

The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. (Collins. New Naturalist Series. i Ss.) IT is a brutal shame on the author (and on a greenshank) to have clothed this book in a......

Musician Of Romanticism

Hugo Wolf. By Frank Walker. (Dent. 36s.) 1951 will count as a memorable year for musicology. It has produced, amid the customary spate of ephemera, two books which are a con-......