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Promised Lands

'ThosE readers seeking entertainment or stylistic felicities of writing may be disappointed by this book'—so Dr. Rosenau in her foreword. At such a warning the knowing reader......

Letters To Warsaw

Portrait of America. By Henry Sienkiewicz. Edited and translated by Charles Morley. (O. U. P., 40s.) HENRY SIENKIEWICZ, who was later to become the Nobel Prize-winning author of......

Two Faces

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