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South American Music

Music of Latin America. By Nicolas Slonimsky. (Harrap. 12s. 6d.) THIS book comprises the most informative collection of data pub- lished up to now about Latin-American music and......

Shorter Notices Britain And Her Export Trade. Edited By Mark

Abrams. (Pilot Press. 15s.) IF the need for more exports has yet to capture the public imagin- ation, the reason may be that one of the canons of publicity has been ignored. It......

Short Stories

IN The Tailors' Cake we find the Kafka influence assimilated so that it has become part of the nerves and sinews of a new body. That is as it should be. M. Devaulx's world is......

Book Notes

Counts announce a fictionised biography of Rachel, the great French tragedienne who took both Paris and London by storm a hundred years ago. Daughter of a Jewish pedlar, Rachel......