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Bags Of Tricks

The Artificial Nigger. By Flannery O'Connor. (Neville Spearman, 13s. 6d.) WHAT MIMI it be like to be an American and have a story accepted by the New Yorker? Do they look at you......

The Faithful Mistress

DURING the exceptionally cold February clays 1848 the floodtide of Revolution was' the ungainly figure of Louis-Philippe on to English shore and its ebb deposited, almost......

Mr. Sloping-both-ways

Peron. By Frank Owen. (Cresset Press, 21s.) As well as acquisitiveness, the motives of authors include inquisitiveness, vanity, selfishness, bloody-mindedness, injured pride,......