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Tinkering With History

T he Poverty of Historicism. By Karl R. Popper. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 16s.) R OFESSOR POPPER'S book is a tract for the times. It starts in the guise of a piece of rigorous......

Jail To Carnegie Hall

Just Jazz. Edited by Sinclair Traill and the Hon. and Jackson, 25s.) TEN essays by jazzmen and critics, with twenty- four plates and a 220-page critical discography of records......

A Gift For Schoolmasters

English Historians. Selected passages compil ed by Bertram Newman. (O.U.P., 18s.) THIS is a collection of short 'extracts from his t°r ; ians writing in English from the......

Vitality And Courage

Come Dance With Me. By Ninette de Valois. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) As a Governor of the Royal Ballet School, I wish this book every success. Dame Ninette is the creator of a......