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Crunch, Swoosh, Squelch

St, Ba rtholomew's Night. By Philippe Erlanger. ( Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 32s.) , 1: : I rn dr eary winter at my preparatory school a i t axe to 4- ., r paper darts was......

The Real Thing

A Life of One's Own. By Gerald Brenan. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) THE first volume of Gerald Brenan's auto- biography takes him with thoroughness and painstaking honesty from his......

!marxismo-leninismo Si!

Castro's Revolution, By Theodore Draper. (Thames and Hudson, 21s.) IN the course of his Cuban polemics, Theodore Draper has experienced to the full the usual frustrations of......