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Engineer's Castes

ambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography. By L. T. C. Rolt. (Longmans, 25s.) 1.4AT stout Lincolnshire prophet of reaction, Colonel Sibthorp, once declared: 'I would rather meet a......

Away From The Telly

Hunza. By John Clark. (Hutchinson, 21s.) A YOUNG French couple, married in New York, with £300 between them, decide to travel round the world. Their story, in Honeymoon Round......

Comfort-station In The Bois

`To be separated from Mama' was Proust's ids { at thirteen, of the worst conceivable pain. 1/ , i never really recovered from that idea, and II . for a moment does Dr. Miller's......