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Big Liza

Portraits of a nd Personalities between Reform and Revolution. By Richard Hare. (O.U.P., 42s.) MR. HARE'S portraits . include writers, political theorists and agitators,......

All About Willy

Somerset Maugham: A Candid Portrait. By Karl G. Pfeiffer. (Gollancz, I8s.) I SHOULD not have thought it possible to write a totally uninteresting book on Somerset Maugham, and I......