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Arab Union

The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi. Translated by Sir Richard F. Burton and edited with an introduction and additional notes by Alan Hull Walton. (Neville Spear- man,......

Illusion And Reality

An Elderly Retired Man. By Kathleen Nott. (Faber, 21s.) The South begins with the death of the narra- tor's father, and proceeds to a retrospect of the narrator's life up to......

The Importance Of Failure

BY F. W. BATESON J N spite of being Queen Victoria's 'sinister' son (by John Brown, one presumes), Mr. Salteena of The Young Visiters was 'not quiet a gentle- man.' Almost but......