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four more of the " Arts in Britain " British Council two or three years ago. to provide English-speaking people ab what had been happening here in the c a tive arts during the period of enforced isolation. Thus are the ephemeralten a longer lease of life, but it is difficult to discern with what it pose. Now four years out of date, their contents are more likely to tantalise by what is missing than enlighten by what is not. As for home readers, they will experience the sheepish superiority of native eavesdroppers at a summer school for Auslander, especially since clichés of appraisal intrude so frequently. Mr. Reed is hardly tactful to write overtly as an " intellectual addressing other intellectuals," yet his essay is perhaps the most rewarding (for this very reason ?); Mr. Hayward's contains the most pertinent obiter scripts ("a creative writer who turns to autobiography too soon is living on the capital of his experiences"), but is marred by a patrician pomposity. Nevertheless, this book, with its ninety-one photographs, coloured frontispiece by John Craxton and copious bibliographies, still makes an acceptable present for the friend abroad—but it needs an informed covering letter.
(Phoenix House, by Arrangement with the British Council. 12s. 6d.)
UNIFORM with its predecessor (which dealt with ballet, film, music and painting), this volume puts betweep handsome buckram covers s issued separately by the e brochures were intended with interim accounts of
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