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The Workers' Educational Association: The First Fifty Years. By Mary Stocks. (George Allen & Unwin. 12s. 6d.) THE W.E.A. is doubly fortunate in having, as its Deputy President......
To Rediscover A Minor Poet Would Not Necessarily Be Matter
for much congratula- tion. But suppose it were a minor Eliza- bethan ? In 1940 the British Museum acquired a little manuscript volume which engagingly declared itself to be The......
Pages From A Musician's Life. By Fritz Busch. (hogarth...
18s.) GLYNDEBOURNE made Fritz Busch a familiar figure to hundreds of English singers and orchestral players and to thousands of English music-lovers, making Germany's loss more......
Papuans And Pygmies. By Alfred A. Vogel. (arthur Barker....
Papuans and Pygmies. By Alfred A. Vogel. (Arthur Barker. 16s.) THE Papuans and Pygmies of New Guinea are still living in the Stone, Age : they are polygamous races,......
Dartmoor. By L. A. Harvey And D. St. Leger-gordon. (new
Naturalist Series, Collins. 25s.) • PROFESSOR HARVEY here reveals a dual per- sonality. As an ecologist, he presents a comprehensive and lucid survey of Dart- moor • its geology......