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Nathanael West And Others

Sylvester. By Edward Hyams. (Longman. 10s. 6d.) IN a year wherein much has been done to celebrate and refresh the reputation of the tragic Scott Fitzgerald, it is fitting and......

The Children Of Maria Theresa

THE greatest of the Habsburgs since Charles V rightly gives her name to the title of this book. Seen in her voluminous correspondence with and about her children, Joseph and......

Fiction

Panorama. By Phyllis Bentley. (Gollanc - z. 12s. 6d.) Cast a Cold Eye. By Mary McCarthy. (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) MISS PHYLLIS BENTLEY'S most striking characteristic as a novelist......