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Books

The Dark Challenge BY GEORGE LAMMING M ORE than anyone else the American Negro must have a very intimate understanding of the term, Cold War: that unholy reign of peace where......

Two Critics

Herman Melville : His Life and Times. By Lewis Mumford. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) MR. MUMFORD'S book was first published in 1929, when the professional critics either ig- nored......