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Ulster Innocents

No Surrender. By Robert Harbinson. (Faber, 18s.) AN autobiography that stops at long trousers — the form that blurb-writers call an evocation of childhood — has observable......

The Stage In The Middle

Shakespeare's Wooden 0. By Leslie Hotson. (Hart-Davis, 30s.) WHETHER Mr. Hotson has his inspirations in the bath or in the Public Records Office, they are more frequent and more......

A New Enlightenment

Logical Positivism. Edited by A. J. Ayer. (Allen and Unwin, 48s.) • Before the inexorable judgment of the ne w I logic, all philosophy in the old sense; whether I t is connected......