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Britannica Book of the Year 195o. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Limited. £2 tos. od.) THIS annual volume, now published in England under the editorship of Mr. John Armitage,......
Fiction
The Commoners. By Fred Kitchen. (Dent. los. 6d.) The Dead SeagulL By George Barker. (Lehmann. 75. 6d.) A VERY mixed bag. It was Arnold Bennett, I think, who said that a person......
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A Contemporary Critic
Nocturnes and Rhapsodies. By Alan Dent. (Hamish Hamilton. To me there is always something a little melancholy about old theatre notices. They can be evocative, nostalgic even,......
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