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Learned Rancour

WHAT a subject! Human nature as putrescent as carrion! Generations of dons, either blinded with religious bigotry, corroded with envy, enraged by frustration or place-seeking,......

Studies In Oppression

The Stories of Sean O'Fnolain. (Hart - Davis, 21s.) Exile and the Kingdom. Stories by Albert Camus. Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. (Hamish Hamilton, 13s. 6d.) MR.......