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The Tang Of Vichy

Main. By Glorney Bolton. (Allen and Unwin, 18s.) `THROW that butt away,' he said, getting into the taxi. The driver obeyed without a word, although he did not know who was......

A Victim Of Flattery

Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon: Being the Memoirs of William J. Braithwaite, 1911- 1912. Edited with an introduction by Sir Henry Bunbury, KCB, and with a commen- tary by......

A Romantic Affair

IT is a truism that romantic love, loVe born all of a piece, not growing with knowledge but, in a single mystical-seeming moment, filling in all the gaps of two people's lives,......

Short Stories

A Book of Stories. By. Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs, William Maxwell. (Gollancz, 16s.) ONE way to classify short stories is into those that begin, 'The business......