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Face Of The Bard

The Days of Dylan Thomas: A Pictorial Biography. By Bill Read. Photographs by Rollie McKenna. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s.) THE text of the latest necrology of Dylan Thomas is......

Saintly Scientist

THESE letters 'from a soldier-priest' 1914-19 are all written to Father Teilhard's cousin Marguerite. In them. the future author of The Phenomenon of Man, the archaeologist and......

Bankers And Sages

• 70s.) IN ancient China, when the country was divided into a number of different kingdoms, there was a class of peripatetic sages who went round from kingdom to kingdom telling......

The Authority Of Failure

The Convention. By Libero Bigiaretti. Translated by Joseph Green. (Macmillan, 21s.) Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses. By William Eastlake. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) The......