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Old Believers

Second Thoughts. By Francois Mauriac. (Dar- wen Finlayson, 16s.) M. MAURIAC has always seemed to me to be a Writer only accessible to his co-religionists: his newest volume of......

Ends Of The Earth

THE two separate parts of Each Actor on his Ass, by Micheal Mac Liammair (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 25s.), 'Killarney to Berlin' and 'Egyptian Diary,' are translated from the......