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Letters

Letters to Milena. By Franz Kafka. Translated by Tania and James Stern. (Seeker & Warburg. 18s.) Letters to Benvenuta. By Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Heinz Norden. (The......

Desert Prose

The Coast of Incense : Autobiography 1933-1939. By Freya Stark. (John Murray. 25s.) I HAVE long suspected that the remarkable fame of women travellers is maintained by the same......