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The Modern Heresy

Faith and History. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (Nisbet. 16s.) THIS book is a fully developed exposition of Dr. Niebuhr's challenge to those non-Christian philosophers who profess to......

Fiction

from the Russian by Moura Budberg. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Los. 6d.) IN the nature of things, novel-reviewers are perfectionists. It does not follow therefore from the......

A Taste For Detection

ONLY the first of these three novels about crime comes within the usual definition of a detective story—the story which has the solution of a murder as its problem, and which......