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Sacred And Profane

Purity and Danger. An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. By Mary Douglas. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 25s.) ONCE every few years an anthropologist writes a book which......

Notes From A Sea Diary : Hemingway All The Way.

By Nelson Algren. (Deutsch, 30s.) Paste Book JUST as every non-writer may be said to have a book in him, so every writer may be said to have a non-book in him. Nelson Algren has......

Hirohito : Emperor Of Japan. By Leonard Mosley....

Nicolson, 42s.) Son of Heaven EMPERORS are not the most accessible of people, but nothing daunted, and having dealt success- fully with the imperious character of Haile......