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Fiction;

THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. The Philosopher's Stone. By J. /Wier Larsen. (Gyldendal. 75. 6d.) RELIGION has given a theme to many great novels, The Brothers Karamazov among them.......

The Early Tories.

A History of the Tory Party, 1640-1714. By Keith Felling. (Oxford : at the Clarendon Press. 188. net.) TIIE Honour School of Modern History at Oxford was at one time wont to be......

Mr. St. John Ervine On The Theatre.

MR. Sr. JOHN ERVINE, like most people of perception who know the industrial parts of this island, is a sociologist and a pessimist, and in his new book on the theatre he has......