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Fiction

Sanda Mala. By Maurice Collis. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) IN my experience of fiction-reviewing I do not think that until now I have found a new novel which I could commend to all......

Uncle Silas •

My Uncle Silas. By H. E. Bates. (Jonathan Cape. ios. 6d.) MR. BATEs's Uncle Silas made his bow some five or six years ago—a crusty, tippling reprobate, devoted to his garden—in......

Crisis In War

BRIGADIER-GENERAL SPEARS deals in this book with the first four months of the year 1917, when the Allies had the chance of harvesting the fruits of the battle of the Somme and,......