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Burning The Books

Auto da Fe. By Elias Canetti. Translated by C. V. Wedgwood. (Cape, 21s.) 'Ma. CarvErri,' wrote Walter Allen, when this novel first appeared in English in 1946, 'has created a......

Helping Heaven Help

Learning and Living, 1790-1960. By J. F. C. Harrison. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 45s.) THE English adult education movement which Professor Harrison writes about has given count-......

Religious Bitter

Arthur Hugh Clough: The Uncommitted Mind. By Katharine Chorley. (O.U.P., 45s.) SIR HAROLD NICOLSON, reviewing this book in the Observer, found it 'curious that [Clough] should......