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THE OLD LADY lonely. By Mca Allan. George G. Harrap anti Co. Ltd. 138 pp. (6/nct.) There is a genuinely touching quality. combining sentiment and humour, in this story of a reserved old gentlewoman and her growing affection for the kind-hearted Alfred Wilshin, landlord of the Dog and Crown. He was fond of her but “scared” as well as fascinated by her formality; she was too shy to let her heart show through it~as she had been, all her life. LOVE ON THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER Flower of the Lotus. By Hermlna fiLwk. Hale. 248 pp. Through Whltcombe and Tombs, Ltd. Miss Black is what they call a dab at these things—such things as this story of an English girl, governess to an Indian native ruler’s children, and the course of her love affair, which began in hostility and advanced . through mystery, with Prince Ghazi's handsome visitor.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23913, 3 April 1943, Page 4
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