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The Private Life Of Baudelaire

Intimate Journals. By Charles Baudelaire. Translated by Christopher Isherwood. Introduction by W. H. Auden. (Methuen. 25s.) IT is strange that a man who, in an age of progress,......

Fiction

The Ruthless Innocent. By Patrick Balfour. (Hamish Hamilton. 93. 6d.) The Dukays. By Lajos Zilahy. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) IT is difficult to decide just what shape is the right......

Forthcoming Books

DETAILS of new books to be published in the spring and summer are now coming in from the publishers. Collins announce a biography of Maupassant by Francis Steegmuller for March,......