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Waterloo—and After

Waterloo. By John Naylor. (Batsford, 21s.) The Last Years of Napoleon. By Ralph Korn- gold. (Gollancz, 25s.) The St. Helena Story. By Dame Mabel Brookes. (Heinemann, 30s.)......

Down And Out In The Vicarage

A Clergyman's Daughter. By George Orwell, (Secker and Warburg, 18s.) SOMETHING odd happens to Orwell's novel on page ninety-six. After a leisurely opening that takes Dorothy,......