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Hit And Hit

In Flanders Fields, By Leon Wolff. (Longmans, 25s.) 1 AT my preparatory school we used to be told, once a year, about a grand and kindly old gentleman called Earl Haig. He was......

The Price Of Bread

The Crowd in the French Revolution. By George Rude. (0.U.P., 35s.) THE Bastille fell to a crowd of wonderful opti- mists. In spite of hunger and unemployment, the Parisian......

Books

Damned Objects By FRANK KERMODE T AM a 'damned object,' according to Mr. 'Everett Knight,* because, as an acquiescent member of a Faculty of Arts, 1 am both the victim and the......