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Books Of The Day

The New Man IT was, I think, Dr. P. G. Wodehouse who said of one of his char- acters that he looked more like an American than anybody, except another American, could possibly......

The Devonshire Ballet

The Face Without a Frown. By Iris Leveson Gower. (Muller. 15s.) THE eighteenth century was an age of involved elegance and of enormous urbanities. Manners were not everything,......