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When Johnny Came Sailing Home Again

Stephen Spender MANHATTAN '45 by Jan Morris Faber, £12.50 M anhattan '45 opens almost Whit- manesquely with a splendid prologue re- calling the arrival of the British liner the......

The Sadness Of A Wandering Jew

David Pryce-Jones THE SPELL by Hermann Broch Deutsch, f11.95 HERMANN BROCH by Paul Michael Liitzeler Quartet, £25 T he Spell is a Thirties novel, an allegory about Hitler. Its......