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The Newest Hero

THE GINGER MAN. By J. P. Donleavy. (Neville Spearman, 15s.) Tins is our old friend the New Hero—but writ very large, as monstrous as Finn MacCool. Mr. Donleavy's prose, which......

Sociology Of Doubts

ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. Vol. I, On the Diversity of Morals; Vol. II, Reason and Unreason in Society. By Morris Ginsberg. (Heinemann, 25s. and 21s.) THERE. are......