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Shorter Notices

When We Build Again. A Bournville Village Trust Research Pub- lication. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) WHAT a tantalising book! The result of three years' research into Birmingham......

This Charmingly Printed Little Book Was First Published...

with an introduction by George Saintsbury, which is reproduced here. Saintsbury particularly commended its non-fortuitous con- junction of old and new. " I cannot imagine," he......

Fiction

Open the Door. By Osbert Sitwell. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) The Time of the Singing. By David Scott Daniell. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) SHORT story writers are, we have been told, the......