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Below Stairs

The English Abigail. By Dorothy Margaret Stuart. (Macmillan. 15s.) IN these days, when Abigails are either invisible or foreign, it is pleasant to be reminded that there was......

When You Die

Death into Life. By Olaf Staplerlon. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) THIS book was bound to raise hopes , and then disappoint them. For it begins with death and goes on to vaster and vaster......

Fiction

In Search of Stephen Vane. By B. Ifor Evans. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) The Driving Fear. By Mary Dunstan. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) DAVID LINDSAY died last year ; A Voyage to......