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New Novels

The Rare Adventure. By Bernard Fergusson. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) The Feast of July. By H. E. Bates. (Michael Joseph. 10s. 6d.) The Rare Adventure kept me reading. It starts off......

The Bach Family

THIS appears to be the first attempt to grapple with the entire Bach dynasty, biographically and critically, within a single volume. To make such a survey palatable to the......

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