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Novels

Life and Letters Summer Storm. By Cesare Pavese. Translated by A. E. Murch. (Peter Owen, 30s.) The Wreck of the Cassandra. By Frederic Pro- kosch. (W. H. Allen, 22s. 6d.) Eyes.......

Maddison's War

A Solitary War. By Henry Williamson. (Mac- donald, 25s.) I HAVE considerable sympathy with the eighteenth-century historian who used to pull down the blinds of his coach when he......

Chess By Phitidor

No. 303 J. HARTONG (Good Companions, 1920) WHITE to play and mate in two moves ; solution next week. Solution to No. 302 (Barry) : Q - Kt 4 !. threat Q4. K Kt 4 ; 2 Kt - B 7. .......