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Fiction

An International Batch 7s. 6d.) WREN Jack became as good as his master the novelist was obliged to abandon one of his most accommodating conven- tions—that one in which the......

2,000,000,000 Years Hence

Last and First Men. By W. Olaf Stapledon. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) THIS is a sort of cosmic detective story. At any rate it proved quite as exciting to the present writer as Chicago......