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Portrait Of A Great General

Lord Wavell (1883-1941) : A Military Biography. By Major-General R. J. Collins. With a Foreword by Field-Marshal J. C. Smuts. (Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.) THERE is no need to......

Cubist

Juan Grin: His Life and Work. By Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. Trans- lated by Douglas Cooper. (Lund Humphries. 52s. 6d.) THERE is a contrast between the writings of painters and......

In Victorian Bengal

India Called Them. By Lord Beveridge. (Allen and Unwin. 18s.) THE life story of Henry and Annette Beveridge, so movingly told by their son, is typical of the vanished generation......