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New Novels

Materialism HENRY TUBE A Dark Stranger Julien Gracq, translated by W. J. Strachan (Peter Owen 30s) The Ship Hans Henny Jahnn, translated by Catherine Hutter (Peter Owen 35s)......

Bonny And Clyde

J. G. FARRELL Memoirs of a Modern Scotland edited by Karl Miller (Faber 45s) Who cares about Scotland? Apart from the Scots themselves, almost nobody, to judge by the melancholy......

Dainty Legends

BARRY HUMPHRIES Ronald Firbank Miriam J. Benkovitz (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 63s) I never met Ronald Firbank. Indeed, I suppose I would never have thought that the author of......