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Stepfather To Madeleine

An Exile in Soho. By Mrs. Robert Henrey. (Dent. 16s.) To read Mrs. Henrey is to look into the heart and mind of a woman; not a woman of supreme genius or of impeccable taste, or......

Sincerity And Prolixity

My Dear Timothy. By Victor Gollancz. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) ". . . there's more enterprise In walking naked." He has strained with an almost obsessive meticulousness to analyse......

Little Man

Charlie Chaplin. By Theodore Huff. (Cassell. 25s.) MR. CHARLES CHAPLIN is an enigma whose countless variations elude his chroniclers' grasps time and again. Perhaps the greatest......