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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......

Fruit And Flowers

A SUPPLEMENT to the Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of Gardening in four volumes has been published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press (42s.), edited by Patrick M. Synge,......