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Wrestling Devils

Perceval's Narrative. Edited by Gregory Bate- son. (Hogarth, 42s.) At A superficial glance it might seem odd that this book should appear on the list of a general publisher. For......

Undiplomat

P ersonal Experience, 1939 - 1946. By the Rt. Hon. Lord Casey. (Constable, 30s.) WHEN Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to ' A merica, arrived in New York in November, 1 940 , he......

The Umbrella Men

Britain's Locust Years, 1918-1940. By William McElwee. (Faber, 25s.) THROUGHOUT the first half of Britain's Locust Years, William McElwee is content to relate the story; he......