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The Savoy . Operas Gilbert And Sullivan Opera. By Audrey...

(Rockliff. 25s.) THE withering contempt with which serious contemporary musicians in France wrote and spoke of the operetta and "light" opera must have astonished many English......

T'ang And Sung.

Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. By Basil Gray. (Faber. 30s.) MR. GRAY'S book is the latest addition to a growing list of Faber monographs on pottery and porcelain, of which......

In Next Week's "spectator" Professor J. B. Black Will Review

"Elizabeth I and her Parliaments, 1559 - 1581" by J. E. Neale; Max Beloff the third and last volume of "The Bolshevik Revolution" by E. H. Carr; and E. T. Williams "The Concept......

Fiction

Casino Royale. By Ian Fleming. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) Maharajah. By Richard Cargoe. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) FIVE first books and a somewhat too practised sixth. What an impersonally......