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Some Reference Books And Other Publications

Mn. FOWLER is cruel—no doubt, only to be kind—to the inversions of the poor literary paragraphist, who, in a pathetic attempt at brightness, writes such stuff as this : " Most......

Fiction

THREE DETECTIVE STORIES The House Without a Key. is. 6d.) The Stolen Budget. By J. S. 7s. 6d.) The Black Abbot. By Edgar 7s. tid.) The Black Abbot. By Edgar 7s. tid.) No......

Two Or Three Graces And Other Stories. By Aldous Huxley.

(Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. net.)—One of Mr. Aldous Huxley's characters in Two or Three Graces, the first story in his new volume, detects. by some instinct or self-conscious',......