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Books Wanted

L. Powys EBONY AND IVORY etc.: Stuart-Young s MERELY A NEGRESS etc; Mark Freshfield's STORMY DAWN. Edo Wallace's SANDERS novels. Contact Noble. 18 Downstde Cles., London N.W.3. Tel. 01-794 1215. I CAME OUT OF FRANCE by Cecil,/ Mackworth (1941). D. R. Norris, St. Dunstan's College, S.E.6.

BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY. 1952 of earlier. Sacker. leer, Bucks.

ROBERT BURNS, a biography. Miilar. 58 Crafts End, Chilton. Didcot. Oxon OX11 OSB.

MERVYN PEAKE, Edward Upward. Millet, 3 North Hill Road, Leeds 6.

VOLTAIRE IN LOVE by Nancy Milford. Spectator Box 698 FOR THEM THAT TRESPASS, THE MIRACLE OF BREAN. Ernest Raymond. BO* 696.

THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL WEST AFRICA FRONTIER FORCE. By Hayward and Clarke. Published Gale & Polden 1964. Box 697.

WHITEHALL THROUGH THE CENTURIES by G. S. Dugdale. E. J. Ptiestley, 10, Kent Close. Btomborough. Merseyside.

D. Kincaid's MOONRISE ON THE INDUS etc.: E. Calder's SIRI RAM etc , F Blayne s SOCRATES IN AN INDIAN VILLAGE etc... Edw Thompson's works. Contact : Noble, 18 Downside Cres.. London N .W.3. Tel 01-7940215 HALEVY The Liberal Awakening and The TrIumph of Refoint. T. C. A. Dowson, The Old Hall, Geething, Notwich. HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY by Kenneth Walker. L Parket, 20, Gaieties de la Reine, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

HE WALKS IN TWO WORLDS by Maurice Barbanel!: WHITE CLIFFS TO CORAL REEF. A CLASSIC BOAT VOYAGE by William Howell Spectator Box 693.

thought is only one of many provocative insights which emerge during the book. The writer's objectivity as an historian allows him to bring up issues which a musician would miss. But the music itself is what is missing in this book. A completely different kind of book—Charles Ives: A Portrait by David Wooldridge—gives the feel of Ives much 'more strongly in its eccentric discussion. The listener to Ives' music can supplement Rossiter's cool discourse with the passionate commitment of a 'great man' (Schonberg's opinion) expressed in his unique compositions.