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Shorter Notices

Love Story. By Ruth McKenney. (Hart-Davis. z 2s. 6d.) Miss Rum MCRENNEY'S autobiography has the charm of foreign - ness. The customs of Greenwich Village sound every bit as......

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REBECCA WEST once put up a plea for the " long-short " story, the nouvelle of some 20,000 words. It was, she said, a length that seemed natural to many writers, and it was a......

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MR. LAMB'S useful collection of passages from the literature of education demonstrates the terrifying sameness of problems and solutions throughout the centuries. Lily in 1512......