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Nature's Way

BARBARA MAUDE Since Silent Spring Frank Graham Jnr (Hamish Hamilton 40s) The Assaults on our Senses John Barr (Methuen 45s) When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring her readers......

Comedy Turns

MICHAEL BORRIE Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy Peter Brieger, Millard Meiss and Charles S. Singleton (Rciutledge 2 vols £22) These splendid volumes, planned for the......

Shorter Notice

The Life of J. M.-W. Turner, RA Walter Thornbury (Ward Lock Reprints 75s). Here is one of the great oddities of biography. When Turner died, a biography was clearly called for,......