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False Prophets

A Private View. By Joyce Howard. (Macmillan, 16s.) HAVING long regarded St. Paul, for all my admir- ation of his prose, as European spoil-sport Number One. 1 was intrigued by......

Where Stories Go

Springtime 3. (Peter Owen, 21s.) Tue short story, say the English with the same gloomy satisfaction with which they lost the Empire, is dead. There's Pritchett, yes, and Wilson,......