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Night Life

Streetwalker. (The Bodley Head, 12s. 6d.) LET me make the point at once : Streetwalker is not an addition to the tedious list of books by experts in specialised fields—racing......

Further Along The Line

Gunner at the Western Front. By Aubrey Wade. (Batsford, 18s.) IN August, 1914, Henry James wrote to an old friend : 'Black and hideous to me is the tragedy that gathers, and I'm......

The Real Reason

The Bank of Time. By George Friel. (Hutchin- son, 15s.) JOHN HERSEY is that rare bird, a novelist who is also a writer. Almost as rare, The War Lover is a novel with a point to......