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Spanish Gleanings

Spring in Spain. By MacKinley Helm. (Gollancz. 18s.) Gatherings from Catalonia. By John Langdon-Davies. (Cassell. • 21s.) IF slim, unshadowed Italy has been the spoilt child of......

Game Without Guns

The Overloaded Ark. By Gerald M. Durrell. (Faber and Faber. Animal Heaven. By Alastair Scobie. (Cassell. 25s.) South African Eden. By Lieut.-Col. J. Stevenson-Hamilton.......

A Man Of Parts

Letters from Graham Robertson. Edited with an Introduction by Kerrison Preston. (Hamish Hamilton. 30s.) IN 1931 the firm of Hamish Hamilton launched their first book, Time Was ;......

New Ncivels

Honey Out of the Rock. By Barbara Collard. (Eyre and Spottis- woode. 10s. 6d.) • "Ha realised," says Madame de Born of Freddy Stirmer, who lay awake at night contemplating his......