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Stirring Times

HENRY TUBE The War of Time Alejo Carpentier (Gollancz 30s) Che Guevara's favourite novelist, we are told, was Alejo Carpentier. The choice—if we discount mere courtesy in one......

Man To Man

JOHN ROWAN WILSON Men in Groups Lionel Tiger (Nelson 50s) The Human Zoo Desmond Morris (Cape 35s) If the proper study of mankind is man, we are certainly hard at it these days.......

Scots Myths

STUART HOOD A History of the Scottish People: 1560- 1830 T. C. Smout (Collins 75s) Few societies can be so dominated by myths as are the Scots. There is the cluster of legend......