Girard De Nerval. By S. A. Rhodes. (peter Owen :
The Vision Press. 25s.) IN the publisher's opinion the life of this minor French poet has a higher interest than that of some other nineteenth-century writers whom he lists,......
The Compiler Offers A Short " Dictionary Of Furniture And
the various accessories of furnishing made and used in England since A.D. 1100." The dust-cover promises also the " age and derivation " of its " names and terms." No competent......
The Life And Times Of Sir Edwin Chadwick. By S.
E. Finer. (Methuen. 42s.) SIR EDWIN CHADWICK'S importunity kept him in public service for twenty years despite continual exasperated opposition. His argumentative presence,......
Make Me An Offer. By Wolf Mankowitz. (andre Deutsch. 7s.
6d.) THE realm in which antiques are bought and sold and shown off is as cluttered with rum customs and rummer customers as that of horse-trading. Its citizens range from......
Child Artists Of The Australian Bush. By Mary Durack Miller
in association with Florence Rutter. (Harrap. 15s.) THE black children whose paintings and drawings are reproduced here were orphans, " some born here at Carrolup, some in the......
Shorter Notices
Gravity and Grace. By Simone Weil. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. • 15s.) " I Love the working classes," the late Evangeline Booth is reported to have said. The late Simone Weil......
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