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( • And Comparing, Them With The .present, We Must

remember that times. have changed. , . • Courage is one of the greatest of human qualities. Field-Marshal give us a sentence like, 'I suggest that the final test of a leader is......

Faulkner .

THE MANSION . . ` I cannot believe that a' finer......

It Is Professor Ayer's Peculiar Gift That He Can Say

so many things that matter so clearly, im- partially and intelligently in so short a compass. Those who have read Mr. Gellner's Words and Things, about which there was all that......

Hard To Separate): Here The Bare Fact, There The...

the fact and the interpretation are logically , indissoluble (it is not as if facts were solid nuggets of reality mirrored by our descrip- tions, which those descriptions......

Near Amalfi

Set This HotAe On Fire. By William Styron. (HamiSif Hamilton, 21s.) The Undesired. By Kathleen Sully. (Peter Davies. 13s. 6d.) This Sweet Sickness. By Patricia Highsmit......

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