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The Novelist As Critic

The Living Novel. By V. S. Pritchett. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) MR. PRrrarErr, in his preface to this collection of essays on Eng- lish, French,. Italian and Russian......

Lessons From The Ancient Greeks

Zito Hellas. A Popular History of Ancient Greece. By C. E. Robinson. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d.) THIS is a timely book. For the study of ancient Greek history can give us the......

Recent Art Books

Our they come for the Christmas market, to be bought for pleasure, for reference, for prestige and snob value, part of the ever-renewed effort to tame art, classify it and make......