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Swallows And Amazons

Benny Green The First Cuckoo Edited by Kenneth Gregory (Times Book; George Allen and Unwin £4.50) Who, apart from the obviously interested parties, reads the correspondence......

In Good Spirits

Olivia Manning Life After Death: Essays by Arnold Toynbee, Rosalind Heywood, ArthUr Koestler and Others (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.95) Pliny said : 'There is one thing certain,......

Books Wanted

HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY by Kenneth Walker. L. Parker, 20, Gaieties de la Reine. 1000 Brussels, Belgium. HE WALKS IN TWO WORLDS by Maurice Barbanel!, WHITE CLIFFS TO CORAL REEF. A......