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Webster's Dictionary Of Synonyms. A Dictionary Of...

Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words. (G. Bell and Sons. 3os.) THIS should prove an invaluable work to scholars and writers just as Webster's International Dictionary has......

Irish Short Stories. (penguin. 9d.)

Shorter Notices THE list of authors is rather more exciting than the stories them- selves. Thus Joyce's Two Gallants exudes the same thick atmosphere as the rest of "The......

This Book, By A Well-known American Journalist, The...

In Search of History and Not Peace But a Sword, is a first-hand account by the author of his European and Far Eastern experiences between 1935 and 1942. Mr. Sheean is a......

Fiction

Why Was I Killed ? By Rex Warner. (The Bodley Head. 75. 6d.) Against the Tide. By Arnim Westerholt. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) . The Pleasure Dome. By Elizabeth Kyle. (Peter......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS IF ever there was news which should have stirred the stock markets, it was surely the announcement of a " tremendous success " at the Moscow Conference. Yet somehow......