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Soundings In Science

SIR WILLIAM DAMPIER has added to his well-known book a short section on the science of the decade 5930-40. This would, in itself, make this new edition worth acquiring. It is......

Fiction

Scene in Passing. By Robert Neumann. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) Scene in Passing is no straightforward chronological résumé of past events, but a fable placed vaguely......

Union Of Writers

Writers in Freedom. Edited by Hermon Ould. (Hutchinson. 8s. WHAT new thing is presaged by this book? The sub-tide is " Symposium based on the XVII International P.E.N. Club......