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One Shy Valve

DAVID PRYCE-JONES The Truth About 'Pygmalion' Richard Hug- gett (Heinemann 42s) Success in the theatre, like LSD, seems to do something unaccountable to the brain-cells.......

Fits And Starts

NIGEL NICOLSON The Youngest Son Ivor Montagu (Lawrence and Wishart 63s) It takes some courage to end the first vol- ume of your autobiography at the age of twenty-three. The......

Set Pieces

JOHN HOLLOWAY Milton and English Art Marcia R. Pointon (Manchester UP 90s) Paradise Lost was reprinted a hundred times in the course of the eighteenth century: which is twice as......