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In The Meantime. By Howard Spring. (constable. Izs. 6d.) Mr.

HOWARD SPRING has reached, his publishers tell us, " distinguished position of a best-selling novelist." , No longer in mood of Heaven Lies About Us, a further account of his......

Shorter Notices

In My Good Books. By V. S. Pritchett. (Chatto and Windus. 75. 6d.) THESE essays on various English, French and Russian writers, which first appeared in the New Statesmbn, read......

In 1925 One Brilliant Contemporary Wrote Of Another: " It

is far more difficult to catch her than it is for -her to catch what she calls life= life ; London ; this moment in June." This new tribute to Virginia Woolf, with a few......

Who Mussolini Is. By Ivor Thomas. Italian Foreign Policy....

Ward. (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs. 6d.) THESE two Oxford Pamphlets are as full of substance as a couple eggs, and their objectivity is most refreshing in war-time. Cap......

Fiction

The Castle on the Hill. By Elizabeth Goudge. (Duckworth. 8s. CONFRONTED with the problems of a major war, the novelist m solve the problems of his own conscience. He can ignore......

Prague Braves The Hangman. By E. V. Erdely. (the Czx

slovak. as.) IN this small book Dr. Erdely supplements his larger wo Germany's First European Protectorate. In this, which was revie here on April 3rd, he gave an impressive and......