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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British do it differently. Masters of fact-presenting as well as of fiction, they have managed to convince the world, by promptly reporting disasters (and, not so promptly, victories) that whatever comes from their official spokesmen is accepted as dead on the level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Francis Iles, who as Anthony Berkeley writes detective fiction, is also known to U. S. readers as the author of two much-admired psychological murder stories, Before the Fact and Malice Aforethought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...SILENT DUCHESS-Anne Green-Harper ($2.50). Unusually trustworthy times-&-manners fiction about France be fore the Revolution, by the sister of Julian Green. Miss Green's Duchess breaks silence in old age to describe her century with a fine grandmotherly wit, telling her tales about as well as they are told in the sources (Saint-Simon, Voltaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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