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Arts Once A Real Turtle

HILARY SPURLING Some years ago, in The American Dream, Edward Albee created a disobliging old party named Grandma, among whose many needling ploys was a habit of droning on......

Sum Of Parts

TREVOR GROVE The Hand-Reared Boy: 4 Novel for Our Times Brian W. Aldiss (Weidenfeld 30s) Brian W. Aldiss has recently been voted Britain's Most Popular Science Fiction......

Shorter Notices

From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era: Vol IV, The Year of Crisis Arthur J. Marder (ouP 63s). Professor Marder, in his full-scale survey of the......