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New Novels

The Cruel Time The Lady and the Little Fox Fur. By Violette Leduc. (Peter Owen, 25s.) To the End of the World. By Blaise Cendrars. (Peter Owen, 32s. 6d.) The End of Something......

The 1917 Overture

HIM By BERTRAM WOLFE Fr FEE present year marks the fiftieth anniver- I sary of the fateful events in Russia in 1917 that opened the time of troubles in which we still live.......