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How We All Grow

How a Baby Grows. By Arnold Gesell. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) THIS new book of Gesell's adds greatly to the debt which parents, general readers and psychologists owe to the......

Near And Distant Journeys

Journeys in the Sun. By Douglas Goldring. (MacDonald. 10s. 6d.) PERCY REDFERN was born in bleak circumstances, into a poor home, in 1875. While still a boy he was apprenticed......

Rilke Or Rodin ?

Rodin. By Rainer Maria Rilke. (Grey Walls Press. 7s. 6d.) AN essay on a sculptor by a poet of Rilke's distinction is almost inevitably more immediately fascinating than even the......