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New Novels

SNOW ON THE PINE. By Macdonald Hull. (Hammond, 15s.) THE BLOW AT THE HEART. By Bernard Glemser. (Macdonald, 12s. 6d.) SOME readers will remember the closing scene of Long the......

Hobbits Complete

THE RETURN OF THE KING, being the Third Part of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. By J. R..12. Tolkien, (Allen and Unwin, 21s.) IT is eighteen years since Professor Tolkien wrote a......

A Sunny View

MR. GORLEY Purr's twenty years' acquaintance with America has softened the piercing visitor's-squint that made Mr. Gorer's The Americans exhilarating and, to an American reader,......