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The Novelist From Tours

Balzac : A biography. By Stefan Zweig. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. (Cassell. 21s.) BALZAC has been dead less than a hundred years, yet he has already become as......

A Book-collector's Forgeries

T. J. WISE'S collection of books was acquired after his death by the British Museum. Few finer private libraries have ever passed into public ownership in this country ; few......