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Books

Not Passion's Slave BY J. D. SCOTT T HE English are a very gentle, very shy people, who have very little contact with their neighbours; they care deeply about children and about......

Some Existentialists

THE first of these, a volume of accurately translated essays from Situations, has Sartre's familiar tantalising attraction; but it will attract zealots for the author rather......

Writers' Types

I FELL into conversation once with a colonial official on leave from British West Africa. We got round to writing somehow, and I asked him if he'd ever met Mr. Graham Greene......