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The Documentary Idea

Grierson on Documentary. Edited by Forsyth Hardy. (Collins. 16s.) " A CLUMSY description, but let it stand." Thus, early on in the development of the documentary film, did its......

Fiction

WHY Robert Penn Warren's book should be called At Heaven'! Gate is not clear. It is not about larks. It tells the story of a crooked financial magnate in a Southern State of......

Prehistoric Marx

WE are so used to the feeling of having them up there and of their coming down here, and to that old joke and all the others, that the title of this book is in itself......

The English Countryside

The Good Life : An Anthology of the Working Life in the Country. Compiled by C. Henry Warren. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 10s. 6d.) IN this age of quick and scrappy reading, with......