12 AUGUST 1943, page 18

Shorter Notice The Quakers. By Otto Zarek. (dakers. Los....

OF all Protestant denominations there is probably none that is richer in records of its origin and history or more careful in their pre- servation than the Society of Friends. A......

Fiction

Escape in Vain. By Georges Simenon. Translation by Stuart Gilbert. . (Routledge. 8s. 6(1.) Men in the Same Boat. By J. D. Beresford and Esme Wynne-Tyson. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d,)......

Country Life

ENGLISH weather is, of course, unpredictable, a thing of shreds ant patches, of samples, of sudden sallies; but a few prophecies may be mach with some confidence. One is that......