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Fiction

Intruder in the Dust is, it seems, Mr. Faulkner's seventeenth book and his first novel to be published since 1941. What a perverse and exasperating writer—what an impossible......

Socialism In Britain

The Socialist Tragedy. By Ivor Thomas, M.P. (Latimer House. 10s. 6d.) DISILLUSIONED Communists frequently feel compelled to justify their defection by strident attacks on the......

A Crusading Educationist

Secondary Education for All. By H. C. Dent. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8s. 6d.) MR. Darr positively prances with his belief in education as a panacea for all society's ills. His......