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New Novels

Spanish story HENRY TUBE Inconsolable Memories Edmundo Desnoes (Deutsch 21s) This Sunday Jose Donoso translated by Lor- raine O'Grady Freeman (Bodley Head 25s) Time of Silence......

Variations On A Triangle

PATRICK ANDERSON The second and final volume of Mr Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey is much better than the first. Whereas The Unknown Years dealt at almost interminable......