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New Novels

"'TAKE my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass' : this opening sentence of Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond......

A Dictionary That Is New

WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY. (Macmillan, 70s.) THE newness of any dictionary, especially of English, is compara- tive: most new dictionaries are not new at all, being mere......

Dai Nippon

THREE GEISHAS. By Kikou Yamata. Translated by Emma Craufurd. (Cassell, 16s.) THE first sentence of this book—`A geisha is not a prostitute'— is significant. So many people,......