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An Opportunity Missed

Odette. By Jerrard Tickell. (Chapman and Hall. 15s.) WHEN the great achievements of human courage come to be recorded, there are really only two satisfactory alternatives. One......

On Architecture

Buildings and Prospects. By John Piper. (Architectural Press. 18s.) ONCE the reader has penetrated beyond the volcanic ashes that fall dismally on the buildings and prospects......

Fiction

Winter Landscape. By Neville Brand. (Hale. 8s. 6d.) Just a Song•at Twilight. By John Lodwick (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) IN these three novels there are deaths. The first, with its......