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Books

Apres Nous le Deluge By 1). W. BROGAN A YEAR or two ago, I was, from necessity, .,.reading a number of books by French emigre s . And there was one feature that marked Most of......

A Sting In A Backwater

The Taxis of the Marne. By Jean Dutourd. (Seeker and Warburg, 16s.) The Taxis of the Marne. By Jean Dutourd. (Seeker and Warburg, 16s.) To care about national glory is regarded......

I, Hamlet, The Dane Hi How Did The Prince Of

Denmark become Hamle t ! i ll How did an Elizabethan revenge-hero become romantic prototype, like Faust or Don Juan, s ` t tit that Mr. James Burnham could dub biro 141......