20 FEBRUARY 1948, page 22

When You Are Old

Old Age : Its Compensations and Rewards. By A. L. Vischer. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) FOR twenty years Dr. Vischer of Basle has been in charge of furnished houses provided by......

Fiction

The Magnet of Doom. By George Simenon. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. (Routledge. 9s. 6d.) The Moot Point. By Peter De Polnay. (Hutchinson. 9s. 6d.) FROM every point of view......

Education Today

" Fox a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminatng powers of the mind." The words are Wordsworth's, written in......