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Non-fiction

The Story of Our Heritage V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey (Nelson, nine volumes, 10 g ns). A scrappy encyclopaedia of world history, pure and applied art which dares to call itself......

Poetry

William Blake : an Introduction Anne Mal- colmson (Constable Youn g Books 21s). Not all of Blake's poetry speaks directly to the youn g ; here, notes illuminate the symbolic......

Ages Ten To Fourteen

A Long Vacation Jules Verne tianslated by Olga Marx (ouP 16s). Historically speaking, a connecting link between Robinson Crusoe and The Lord of the Flies: fourteen shipwrecked......