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Comminding The Fitful

Our Friend James Joyce. By Mary and Padraic Col um. (Gollancz, 16s.) Tins little book consists of memories of Joyce by his own 'What-do-you-Colums,' Padraic and his wife. There......

A Door Ajar. By Peter De Polnay. (robert Hale, I5s.)

The young de Polnay won and lost a fortune in five months on the Riviera of the 1930s, when 'it was then like a beautiful lady: nowadays it is a travel agent surrounded by a......

The Flight Of Ikaros. By Kevin Andrews. (weidenfeld And...

21s.) This young man lived in Athens and in the hardest, remotest parts of the Peloponnese during the troubled times of the later 1940s. Few of the many who have deeply admired......

Todd Almighty

The Nine Lives of Mike Todd. 13) Art Cohn. (Hutchinson, 2 1 s.) 'Ttni sun was sinking behind the bagnios of Hen- nepin Avenue.' Mr. Cohn begins arrestingly. Eight-year-old Avrom......

Solution Of Crossword 1.0311 Across. - 1 Dumb-bell. 5...

9 slack-out. 10 Decamp. 12 Earthy. 13 Caviller. 15 Heave in sight. 18 Auction ;ales. 23 Gangling. 24 Debase. 26 Loiter. 27 Monastir, 28 Non est. 29 Cardinal. DOWN.— 1 Dubbed. 2......

Leaves From The Jungle. By Verrier Elwin. (o.u.p., 16s.)...

reprint of charming minor classic—the diary of one who fell in love with Gandhi's India and Gandhi's philosophy, and wrote twenty years ago, his unaffected, sweet- natured,......

Spectator Crossword No. 1,032

I 'Bound for the isles of Javan and ----' (Milton) (6) 4 Knotted latchets are with the goods (8) 1 Thcy confine many a calf (7) 10 A sailor returns at the end of the exhaustion......

Ends Of The Earth

The Mountains of Rasselas, By Thomas Paken- ham. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) On mule- back and on foot, the enterprising and not un- courageous author sought and found the......

The Heart Of India. By Alexander Campbell. (constable,...

A Time and Life correspon- dent's well-observed, predigested, neatly written detailed survey of the new striving India that is still an inconsequential, charming, irritating.......

Longhouse And Jungle. By Guy Arnold. (chatto And Windus,...

Lightly scholarly and faintly stylish account, by its leader, of an Oxford Univer- sity expedition to a remote tableland in Borneo, carried there by dugout canoe, and sometimes......