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Fiction

Peony. By Keith West. (Cresset Press. 8s.) Gin and Bitters. By Jane Lane. (Dakers. 10s. 6d.) Peace with Honour. By Derek Walker-Smith. (Chapman and Hall. 9s. 6d.) Vagabond Hope.......

The Medical Saga

A History of Medicine. Douglas Guthrie, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Nelson. 30s.) To write a history of Medicine, from its vague prehistoric begin- nings to the present day, that is at once......

A Candid Diplomat

IN some respects Sir Nevile Henderson has been hardly judged. He was sent as Ambassador to Berlin in April, 1937, and conceived it as his supreme duty to avert, or at the least......