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Sage Words
A History of Chinese Literature. By Lai Ming. With a preface by Lin Yutang. (Cassell, 42s.) ONE afternoon in the autumn of 1934 I went and had tea in Cambridge with the first......
Experiments
THE blurb of Anais Nin's new book repeats what various critics have written in the past about her work : Edmund Wilson has called her 'a very great artist' and Rebecca West has......
The Gronow Column
The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow. Abridged and with an intro- duction by John Raymond. (The Bodley Head, 50s.) WAS there really a Pig-faced Lady,......