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Littl E Victims

English Children. By Sylvia Lynd. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) THIS addition to the " Britain in Pictures " series is a charming, ele- gantly ironic little sketch of the history of......

A Proust Friendship

Marcel Proust : Lettres a Une Arnie. Recueil de quarante-et-une lettres inedites adressies I Marie Nordlinger I899-1908. (Editions du Calame, Manchester. LI Is.) A scAftcrrt of......

Fiction

Nobody's Darlings. By Margaret Iles. (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) Grand Opera. By Vicki Baum. (Bles. 8s. 6d.) The Three Bamboos. By Robert Standish. (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) , Northern......