28 MAY 1948, page 24

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IT is difficult to see quite what purpose this book will serve. Its intentions are admirable ; so are its origins. It springs from a series of meetings held in London by the......

Fiction

woode. 12s. 6d.) From the City, from the Plough. By Alexander Baron. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) SINCE its origins in Defoe and Richardson, the English novel has been interested in moral......