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Dream-bubbles

The Nature of the Beast. By Robert Holies. (Heinemann, 21s.) The Itinerant Lodger. By David Nobbs. (Methuen, I8s.) The (Diblos) Notebook. By James Merrill. (Ch4to and Windus,......

Evelyn Waugh's ,sword Of Honour Trilogy, Comprising Men...

(1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (19 1 51), has now been issued in a one-volume - 'final version of the novels' by Chapman and Hall (500.......

The Go-between

The Merchant of Revolution : The Life of • Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus) 1867- ALEXANDER ISRAEL HELPHAND, the mad 'be- hind the pen-name `Parvus,' revolutionary activist......