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Flaubert's Transcendence

Flaubert : A Biography. By Philip Spencer. (Faber. 25s.) FLAUBERT has come full-circle. Once a target for fashionable attack, he is now too often made an idol for fashionable......

Italian Saga

The Mill On The Po. By Riccardo Bacchelli. Translated by Frances Frenaye. (Hutchinson. 15s.) Tms very large-planned and lengthy Italian novel is evidently held in high regard in......

Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield. A Critical...

(Geoffrey Cumberlege. 21s.) KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S misfortune was that she never found suitable conditions in which to write. Her restless consumptive's temperament partly......