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The Great Partition

IN his sensible introduction to this study of partition Mr. Sheehy reminds us that all modern communities are bastards begotten by conquest. However intolerable the original act......

Short Stories

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RHYS DAVIES. (Heinemann, 18s.) His Collected Stories are a monument to Rhys Davies's immense integrity. At one time or another almost every writer of......

Antipodes

THE STORY OF AUSTRALIA. By A. G. L. Shaw. (Faber, 15s.) WAINEwRIGHT IN TASMANIA. By Robert Crossland. (O.U.P., 22s. 6d.) 'HERE was an almost boundless extent of the richest......