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Fiction

Black-out in Gretley. By J. B. Priestley. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) The Day Will Come. By Lion Feuchtwanger. (Hutchinson. gs. 6d.) Augusta Steps Out. By Norah Houk. (Heinemann. 8s.......

Improving The Scriptures

Palestine Plays. By Laurence Housman. (Cape. 6s.) MR. HOUSMAN has taken four stories from the Old Testament an turned them into plays. With such splendid dramatic material t his......

A Small Masterpiece

War and Peace is about half a million words, Soule de Suif is about five thousand words, Tchekhov could sometimes get a sketch down in a thousand words. Is there any......