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Fiction

The Best Short Stories of 1940. Edited by Edward J. O'Brien. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) THERE is at the moment a controversial fluttering as to what the short story is—character, an......

Shorter Notices

Inside the Department of State. By Bertram D. Hulen. (McGraw Hill. r8s.) AMERICAN traditional folklore has not been kind to American diplomats, " cookie pushers " as, thanks to......

Finance And Investment

By CUSTOS WHITEHALL has again waved its wand over the gilt-edged market Re-investment demand is to be stimulated by the paying off of large block of India's sterling loans.......

Serial Map Service. January 1941. Commentary By Serial...

and London. Maps produced by J. Bartholemew. (25s. a year). IT is impossible to follow intelligently any war, least of all this, without reference to maps, yet no ordinary atlas......

Here For Students Is The Original Text Of The Strange

book of the fifteenth-century mystic from King's Lynn, which was published a few years ago by Messrs. Jonathan Cape in a modernised version by the owner of the MS., Colonel......