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News From Tyranny

Back to Life. Edited by Robert Conquest. (Hutchinson, 15s.) THIS extraordinary book—an anthology of recent poems from behind the Iron Curtain—should be on the shelves of every......

Granta And After

THIS.IS a re-make of M. Jullian's Dictionnaire dtc Snobbistne, with English additions and, I imagine, some French subtractions. The entries, by a variety of writers, live and......

Solution 'of Crossword No, 1,021 Across.-1 Sit On The Fence.

9 Haver- sack. 10 Talon. 11 Frogs. 12 Plate-rack 13 Sea-staid. 15 Ephesus. 17 Dresser. 19 Catch up. 21 Impromptu. 23 Silks, 24 Laird. 25 Inanimate. 26 Merrythoughts. DOWN.--2......

Officer And Gentleman

GIACOMO CASANOVA, Chevalier de Seingalt, Knight of the Golden Spur; Doctor of Divinity in the University of Padua, priest and confidant of Car- dinals; Ensign in the Army of the......

Spectator Crossword No. 1,023

ACROSS 26 1 I'd turn hack to the brasshats (8) 5 Ready to be hung for a put-up job? (6) 9 'A — of the empire and the rule' (Shakespeare) (3-5) 10 Exhibited in a brilliant, fast......