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Books

Proust finds a vocation JOHN FLETCHER Proust, as a writer, was happiest in meta- phor. So he compared his million-word novel, Remembrance of Things Past, among other things to a......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 29 January 1870—A Mr Cook, a professional billiard - player, is said to have worked a revolution in the manufacture of billiard tables. It is of no use to......