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Lessons

What Life Has Taught Me. By Twenty-Five Distinguished Men and Women. Selected and arranged by Sir James Marchant. (Odhams Press. 9s. 6d.) MIGHT one not expect to find something......

Venice

Cut into by doors The morning assumes night's burden, the houses Assemble in tight cubes. From the palace flanking the waterfront She is about to embark, but pauses. Her dress......

Going Down

Caves of Adventure. By Haroun Tazieff. Translated from the French by Alan Hodge. (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) CHILDHOOD experiences of the Cheddar Caves, visits later on to some......