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Introduction To Farming Both Sides Of The Road. By S.

Rogerson and C. Tunnicliffe. (Collins. 21s.) THE end of petrol-rationing may make this book something of a public danger, for it is likely to turn all its readers into either......

Fiction

OH, the gloom of M. Mauriac, the unyielding preoccupation with sin and death, the pious devotion to an ideal of unhappiness ! In reading him one shudders to think for a moment......

Guide-books

Buckinghamshire. . – "By E. S. Roscoe. Revised by R. L. P. Jowitt and E. Clive Rouse. ' Cornwall. By Arthur L. Salmon, Revised by H. Ronald Hicks. Derbyshire. By Thomas L.......

Mervyn Peake's* Poetry

The Glassblowers. By Mervyn Peake. (Eyre" and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.) DESCRIBING the advent of -a poet, Emerson said: " I had fancied that the oracles were all silent, and nature......