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Latin America For Adults

LATIN AMERICA is increasingly in the news, which means among other things that more nonsense will be written about it. Political commentators here will project their unsatisfied......

The People, Perhaps

The Age of Reform. By Richard Hofstadter. (Cape, 30s.) The Paradoxes of Freedom. By Sidney Hook. California and C.U.P., 40s.) MR. HOFSTADTER'S The Age of Reform provides a......

Portable Lives

Never Had It So Good. By D. A. Nicholas Jones. (Cape, 25s.) It's Different Abroad. By Henry Calvin. (Hut- chinson, 15s.) ONE of the primary functions of the novel form has......