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Benjamin Constant

Adolphe ranks amongst the ten or twelve greatest novels in the French language—and maybe in any language—and it is right that it should now reach a large English public. Its......

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Florentine Confusion .Sitic:E its issue in 1924 Monsieur Jean Alazard's Le Portrait Florentin de Botticelli a Bronzino has been the standard, because the only readily......

Philosophy Breaks In

Social Pragmatism. By Lan Freed. (Watts. 15s.) PHILOSOPHERS are like housewives ; their ideal is the total, abolition of untidiness, with - a subsequent elevation of all human......