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Marc Bloch

Strange Defeat : A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. By Marc Bloch. With an Introduction by Sir Maurice Powicke and Fore- word by Georges Altman. Translated from the French......

Alun Lewis

In the Green Tree. By Alun Lewis. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) ALUM Law's was killed in an accident, in India during the war, at the age of twenty-eight. This book gives us his......

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mrs. Gaskell. By Yvonne ffrench. (Home and Van Thal. 6s.) READING the best of Mrs. Gaskell is like listening to a suave music for strings and woodwind, a pastoral music whose......