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A Studio With A View

More Portraits of a Lifetime : 1918-1938. By Jacques-Emile Blanche. (Dent. r8s.) ONE of the effects of the outbreak of war is to have formed. as it were, an enclave of the......

Spiritual Leadership

Love for a Country. By Rom Landau. (Nicholson and Watson. I2S. 6d.) Mx. LANDAU is a Pole who for some years past has made his home in this country. Now in a book of three......

Patterns Of Thought

Four Ways of Philosophy. By Irwin Edman. (Constable. 12s.) PROFESSOR EDMAN, who recently delighted us with his Philosopher's Holiday, now shows us what he can do when on duty.......