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New Novels

THE jolly Jack-tar is an engaging and reassuring figure in English, folklore. Never mind the public ingratitude or the general vile- ness of conditions at sea, he was always......

New Nobs

FRENCH LEAVE. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Herbert Jenkins, 10s. 6d.) WITH the dry rot and John Betjeman hovering solicitously over Blandings Castle, with Jeeves in the service of a......

In The Minor

CARNIVAL KING. By Henry Treece. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) A MATCH FOR THE DEVIL. By Norman Nicholson. (Faber, 10s. 6d.) THESE two plays have nothing in common except that , they are......