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Books

BOOKMAN, SPARE THAT TREE ALEXANDRA ARTLEY I n 'What Shall We Call Beautiful?', an essay from Form in Civilisation (1922) by William Lethaby, the self-effacing Arts & Crafts......

First Day Out

Through the hospital gate, the world ... We're strangers here. It's all too sudden, an astonishment of detail, every leaf too clear, the raddling of old brick in smog and......