24 JANUARY 1947, page 26

Shorter Notices

IN this recent addition to the King Penguin list, the Richmond Herald has contrived an introduction to English heraldry which is at the same time scholarly and simplified. Past......

Fiction

The Haunted Woman. By David Lindsay. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) The Faithless Mirror. By Honor Croome. (Christophers. 8s. 6d.) THE blurb which is printed on the wrapper of The Haunted......

The Field Is Full Of Shades Is An Unpretentious And

wholly delightful book about the men who made the English game of cricket. In the space of Iii pages Mr. Martineau has collected (mostly from his contributions to The Cricketer)......

The Theory Of Capitalist Development. By Paul M. Sweezy....

Dobson. 18s.) DR. SWEEZY'S publishers claim on his behalf that his book should be " readily intelligible to the interested layman as well as to the specialist in social......