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New Novels

The Midwich Cuckoos. By John Wyndham. (M ichael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque. (Hutchinson, 15s.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque.......

Temporary Halt

Man on the Run. By Eustace Hamilton Ian Stewart-Hargreaves. (Allan Wingate, 13s. 6d.) ONE . sultry summer's day in 1952, when I was living in Tangier, I mounted the small,......

Over Clipped Hedges

COWPER and Jefferies seem to stand at opposite ends of the Rural Revolution. In 1784 Cowper wrote to LJnwin telling him that the aim of Th e Task was 'to discountenance the......