6 FEBRUARY 1948, page 24

Shorter Notices Considering The Richness And Interest Of...

there have been remarkably few books on Assyriology. The science is little more than a hundred years old ; we have had the notes and books of Rich and Layard, Gertrude Bell, T.......

The Port Of London. By John Herbert. (collins. 5s.)

THIS, the latest addition to " Britain in Pictures," is not among the most successful contributions to the series. Vital as the Thames is to the port the two are not the same......

Fiction

Lydia Summers. By L. Steni. (Falcon Press. 7s. 6d.) Asotrr eighteen years ago Mr. L. Steni published a remarkable, almost unnoticed, novel, with the odd title Prelude to a Rope......