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Hymns For The Home

The B.B.C. Hymn Book. (Oxford University Press for the B.B.C. With music us. 6d., words only 6s.) To produce a new hymn book at the present time must surely be worse than venial......

Stalin And The Peasant

Marx Against the Peasant. By David Mitrany. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2 Ss.) ECONOMICS and political science are taught in Britain, the United States and Western Europe as if......

The Corny Lot

Memoirs of a Sword-Swallower. By Dan Mannix. (Harnish Hamil- ton. 12s. 6d.) ONE is bound to feel a great deal of curiosity about those men whose occupations appear to be remote......