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...HILL (122 pp.)-John Masefield-Macmillan...
...home, the Prime Minister is more animated as he jokes with his family and friends. If anyone happens to show an interest in nursery schools, he pins him down. He will probably rope the victim into his favorite charity, the Margaret MacMillan Memorial Fund, pledged to raise ?250,000 to establish nursery schools in Britain's poor districts...
When a Christian does battle with Freud, it is no news. But a foray against Freud just published in the U.S. by British Clergyman Benjamin Gilbert Sanders, Christianity After Freud (Macmillan; $1.75), may raise some startled eyebrows among both psychoanalysts and Christians. For Author Sanders picks Freud's own weapons to defend Christianity...
...past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
...FLOWERS FOR SHINER (372 pp.) -Richard Llewellyn-Macmillan...