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Pleasure Principles

Love and the French. By Nina Epton. (Cassell, 25s.) Tie trouble is that ever since the Symposium all theoreticians who wish to uphold love, as opposed to those who, like Proust,......

The Hand Of The Master

ONCE, when I was fourteen and he was forty-five, I wap taken to visit Edward Johnston at Ditchling. I had lately won an 'Art' prize at school with an illuminated collect the......

Books

Chez de Gaulle By D. W. BROGAN T am not an admirer of the historical I doctrines of Dr. Arnold Toynbee, but one of his favourite principles has been brilliantly exemplified in......