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Cover Of Darkness

Cover of Darkness. By Air Commodore Roderick Chisholm. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d.) THIS is the muted odyssey of a " week-end flier." The author was a gifted leader among those......

In Search Of The Absolute

Simone Weil. By J. B. Perrin and G. Thibon. (Routledge. 16s.) EVERY age produces, if not the prophets it needs, the prophets it deserves, and Simone Weil's was a voice that......

A Great Engraver

Thomas Bewick : A Bibliography Raisonne. By S. Roscoe. (Oxford University Press. 70s.) • THOMAS BEWICK iS Still so lively an influence on the craft of wood- engraving that it is......