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Emergent Novelists

The Pleasures of Exile. By George Lamming. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) RACES formerly subject and silent have found a voice, but the ensuing dialogue with the heirs to Western......

Court Circulars

HOLLYWOOD is an island, and from the auto- biographies intermittently washed up on our shore it is clear that it is not an easy place in which to support life. The note of such......

Ironhead

DR JOHNSON used Charles XII to illustrate the vanity of human wishes: He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a talc. Johnson was quite right.......