31 OCTOBER 1941, page 18

Mrs. Webb On Russia

THE new introduction—on the Russia of 1941—which Mrs. Webb contributes to a new and cheaper edition of the classic work which she and Sidney Webb first published in 1935......

Shorter Notice

THESE half-dozen essays, including two of particular note on Death and Fear, by the Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, will be read with pleasure and profit by many who......

Fiction

A FAIR to middling lot, the above ; indeed perhaps only very fair to very middling. Too many batches of novels are like that nowadaysdepressing, when every published work should......

" The Spectator " Crossword No. 138 , I Prize

of a Book Token for one guinea will be given ig the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked with the words......

Solution To Crossword No. 136

SOLUTION ON NOVEMBER 14th The winner of Crossword No. 136 is W. Mainwaring Burton, Alderbourne Manor, near Gerrards Cross, Bucks.......