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A Great Hack

George Gale Samuel Johnson John Wain (Macmillan £4.9 5 ) This commodious and discursive work of pietY starts with the prdposition, startling to me, that "Samuel Johnson has not......

Trouble In Paradise

Wilfrid Blunt Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature Thor He (Allen and Unwin £4.75) m clea n To the Bach of the Beyond Sir Fitzroy —a (Jonathan Cape £4.50) It must have been about......