29 MAY 1947, page 26

Fiction

Bing Cotton. By Thomas Armstrong. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) READERS who approach The Tables of the Law expecting to find a novel of the order of pseph and His Brethren will be......

Shorter Notices

THIS is a useful and pleasant little collection of short stories for sixth-form and university students of Italian and for the "general reader." Although a fourteenth-century......

Coal. By D. R. Grenfell. (gollancz. 8s. 6d.) If The

problem of coal production is to be .solved it must be under- stood not only by those directly engaged in the industry but by the whole community. And if the community is to......

Book Notes

ALTHOUGH Norman Marshall has been the producer of a number of successes on the London stage — Victoria Regina, Of Mice and Men, The First Gentleman, are three which will be......