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Archetypal

Catherine Peters K athleen Raine's new book consists of 11 papers, all but one (an essay on the painter Charles Collins) given as lectures on various occasions during the past......

A Lost Lady

Simon Blow T hea Kronborg is a settler child of the American West. Moonstone, her home - Town, lies far south, in Colorado, and is lapped by desert plains. The inhabitants are......

Books Wanted

THE COLLAPSE OF BRITISH POWER by Correlli Barnett (1972) and 'The Quest for National Efficiency' by Geoffrey Searle (Blackwell 1971). R.P.T. Davenport- Hines, 3 Pembridge......