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Condensable

NILA. Her story as told to Willie Snow Ethridge. (Gollancz, 18s.) IRON CURTAIN jumpers are nowadays so well established as a literary class that we demand something more from......

New Novels

Tun crapulent, venal, cruel and variously vicious Englishman abroad is becoming almost a stock figure in current fiction. From the novelists' point of view this is......

Science And Soil

DANIEL HALL. By H. E. Dale. (John Murray, 21s.) Tins is an unexpectedly pleasant and interesting book—pleasant because it is free from the senseless jargon and small, facetious......