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Love In High Places

Napoleon and Mademoiselle George. By Edith Saunders. (Longmans, 21s.) Love and the Princess. By Lucille Iremonger. (Faber, 25s.) IT would come high in any album of male fan-......

School Of Maugham

Points of View. By W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann, 21s.) IF writers kept a studio, or stud, as painters used to do, this book would seem very like 'School of Maugham.' The......

Elective Affinities

The Neon Halo. By Jean-Louis Curtis. (Seeker and Warburg, 15s.) THE nature of George Lamming's impressive third novel is better explained by describing the various elements he......