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Two Critics

BOOKS about books should always be suspect. If they are not merely rehashing the contents of other more living texts they are as likely as not chasing a red herring or grinding......

Autobiographies

Happy Family. By Cornelia Otis Skinner. (Constable. iss.) Give Me Back My Heart. By Jack Jones. (Hamish Hamilton. i 2s. 6d.) ONE opens a theatrical autobiography, not in search......