16 JANUARY 1942, page 20

Shorter Notices Great Angling Stories. Selected And...

M. Dickie, (Chambers. 15s.) MANY, perhaps the majority, of fishermen in these islands have been unable to visit the streams of their hearts during the last couple of seasons.......

Fiction

The Fort. By Storm Jameson. (Cassell. 6s.) Winter of Discontent. By Gilbert Frankau. (Hutchinson. gs. 6d.) The Fort has many virtues ' • it is both short and stimulating. The......

One Foot In Heaven. By Hartzell Spence. (harrap. - 8s. 64.)

DR. SPENCE, the author's father, was a Methodist parson in Iowa. For this reason the book is an important sidelight on the . Middle West. It is also an entertaining, neatly......

Democracy, The Threatened Foundations. By Reginald...

3s. 64.) Tins little book has an unfortunate title. For Mr. Lennard, the foundations of democracy are not threatened where they have been well and truly laid and they have been......