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• The Child's World

Children Never Tell. By Gwendolen Freeman. (Allen and Unwin- 8s. 6d.) AT the age of six, Gwendolen Freeman made a vow : " I shall never forget what it is like to be a child. And......

Author Of " The Beaux' Stratagem

THE Restoration 'comedy of manners has been in complete dis- grace for long, and it is only within recent years that-its impudent themes have been studied critically and without......

Art : 1906-1930

The March of the Moderns. By William Gaunt. (Cape. 12s. 60 Mit. GAUNT is a brave man. Very few would attempt to write a panoramic study of art-movements from 1906 to 1930. They......

London And America

Transatlantic London. By John Evelyn Wrench. (Hutchinson. 21s.) IN Who's Who, Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English-Speaking Union in 1918, lists as one of his recreations,......