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New Novels

Present Indicative Clerks in Lowly Orders, by Stuart Mitchel, is very much a contemporary novel; its yellow Gollancz jacket suits it well. That is not a snide way of saying that......

A Hero Of Our Time

The Hunt for Kimathi. By Ian Henderson and Philip Goodhart. (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) DEDAN KIMATHI was,by any standards, a cowardly and superstitious brute. The Mau Mau, of which......

The Modern French Novel

BY W. W. ROBSON RENCH literature today lacks the commanding classical prestige it once had. It was French critics who first taught us that criticism is vain without the concept......