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The Karl Marx Of Aesthetics

The Historical Novel. By Georg Luktics. Trans- lated by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell. (Merlin Press, 36s.) GEORO LUKACS, who will be seventy-seven next April, is hardly more than......

Light On Asia

BOTH these books deal with the thrust by Europe to overrun the East—the period lasting from Vasco da Gama to recent years. The first, by Dorothy Woodman, is a minute account of......