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The Konigsmark Drawings, By Rex Whistler (richards Press....

a sumptuous piece of book-making in which Rex Whistler's ten Baroque drawings for A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmark find a fitting setting. Laurence Whistler introduces them,......

The Midwinter Issue - Of Wessex Letters Fi - Oin...

the Secretary, The Springhead Ring, Fontwell Magna, Shaftes- bury, Dorset (2s. post free), is devoted to the memory of the late H. J. Massingham, whb died last year and whose......

Fiction

INFLUENCED, as one inevitably is, by the literary fashions of the day, the novels I find hardest to assess fairly are the gentle, moral, almost allegorical ones. Being devotedly......

Children Of Israel

Learning Laughter. By Stephen Spender. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 15s.) THE title of this travel-book is inappropriate. Laughter was just the thing that Mr. Spender did not find......