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Men Of Standing

Made to Last. By John Kenneth Galbraith. (Hamish Hamilton, 16s.) PROFESSOR GALBRAITH is far from being my favourite economist, but in this little book he shows some surprising......

The Romantic Exile

By RONALD HINGLEY p ustuart's letters* have never appeared in English before, and some readers may be Puzzled to find that a commodity labelled `Russian' can be quite so......

Status Seeker

MODERN poets, on the whole, make poor sub- jects for the biographer. If—in the words of Yeats- - they chose 'perfection of the work,' their lives are likely to have been as......