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Yiddische Momma

The Life of Gliickel of Hameln. Written by herself. Edited by Beth-Zion Abrahams. (East and West Library, 27s. 6d.) HERE is a refreshingly unique seventeenth-cen- tu ry......

Free Style Nureyev : An Autobiography With Pictures. By...

Nureyev. Edited by Alexander Bland. (Hodder and Stoughton, 35s.) HERE is a book by a man whose medium of expression is movement, not words, written up not just by one 'ghost,'......