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Courtier Of Death

The True Blue. By Michael Alexander. (Hart- Davis, 30s.) 'HE had peculiarities which I could not appreciate. . . .' Thus said the old Duke of Cam- bridge to Wolseley, in the......

The Cocteau Story

To begin with, these aren't really Cocteau's journals at all, but a collection of passages from his previous work in which he talks about the torments and versatility of his own......

John Calder Ltd. Are Giving All Profits Fronl The South

African Treason Trial (18s.), by Lionel Forman and Solly Sachs, to Christian Action. The first part of the book gives a factual account 0 1 the events of the trial to date; the......

Latter-day Saints

New Bottles for New Wine. Essays by Julian Huxley. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) IN the last 150 years the nature of the physical substance of the universe has been substantially......